Recorded as Potomac Manors beginning March 17, 1949, with 152 parcels, houses from the 1950s through the 2000s, and public sewer on some lots and private septic on others.
Potomac Manor is the least consistent subdivision on our Potomac list, and that is the useful thing to know about it. Section 1 was recorded on March 17, 1949 and Section 2 on May 4, 1955, both by Herman Schmidt, with later lots recorded through 1996. Almost nothing about it is uniform: lot sizes appear in two different units of measure, the houses span six decades, roughly half the parcels are on public sewer and half on private septic, and the homeowners association covers only one section. Even the name splits — the county records it in the plural.
The recorded subdivision name carries an s: Potomac Manors. The singular is what most people say and what most listings write, which matters when you are searching county land records, plat books or assessment data and getting no results. Search both spellings, and confirm which section a given address falls in, because the two original sections were recorded six years apart and are not governed identically. Section 1 dates from March 17, 1949; Section 2 from May 4, 1955.
Of the 152 parcels, 100 are recorded in acres with a median of 2.235 acres, and 52 are recorded in square feet with a median of roughly 50,900 square feet — well under the two-acre RE-2 minimum that applies to the subdivision today. That is what you would expect where the original sections were laid out decades before the current zoning ordinance, which the County Council adopted in 2014. A smaller-than-minimum lot of record is not necessarily unbuildable, but what can be built on it is a question for Montgomery Planning rather than an assumption from the zone letter. Ask before you price an addition.
There is no single building period here. Houses date from the 1950s through the 2000s with a median year built of 1987, and brick is the dominant exterior. On one block you can find an original 1950s house, an 1980s replacement and a 2000s rebuild, which makes appraisal and comparable selection unusually sensitive to which house you are actually looking at. A subdivision-level price per square foot is not a useful number here; the sample is not homogeneous enough to support it.
Wastewater is decided parcel by parcel: roughly 81 parcels are on public sewer and roughly 59 are in category S-6, where no community service is planned and the house runs on private septic. A neighbor's arrangement tells you nothing about the lot you are buying, so confirm the categories with the Department of Environmental Protection before assuming a connection is available. The street names run to an equestrian theme — Bit and Spur Lane, Martingale Court, The Corral Drive. Governance is partial: the Potomac Manors II HOA covers only Section 2, so a Section 1 buyer has no association, no assessment and no resale package. Schools are Potomac Elementary, Herbert Hoover Middle and Winston Churchill High; confirm the current assignment with MCPS. As of August 2026.
Potomac Manor sits within Potomac — that guide covers the zoning, permitting and site constraints that apply across the wider area.
Artur can confirm what applies to a specific address here — lot, zoning, association documents and school assignment — before you write an offer.
