Areas · Prince George's County
Reels and spools in Landover: industrial parks inside and outside the Beltway
LANDOVER, Md. — Landover, mostly in ZIP 20785 with Hyattsville and Landover mailing addresses, is a mix of industrial parks, warehouses and neighbourhoods along US-50 and Route 202, just inside and outside the Beltway. Its contractor and supplier yards are regular reel pickups for the desk.
From the reel desk · Checked 9 November 2026
Schematic line map, not to survey: Landover marked, with US-50, I-95 drawn heavier. The Potomac, the Anacostia, the District line and the Beltway are drawn for bearings.
Fact box: Landover
- ZIP
- 20785
- Main roads
- US-50, Route 202 (Landover Road), Capital Beltway, MD-704
- Land use
- Industrial parks, warehouses, housing
- Transit
- Landover and Cheverly Metro (Orange Line)
Industrial Landover
Landover sits east of the District line between US-50 and Central Avenue, with the Beltway running through it. Much of it is industrial: warehouses and distribution buildings along Ardwick-Ardmore Road and the US-50 corridor, flex buildings, bus and truck depots, and contractor yards. It is the kind of place where companies that work across the region keep their equipment and their materials.
Yard pickups
A Landover contractor yard can hold reels from jobs in the District one week and from Bowie or Largo the next. Most yards have the room to sort, and that is worth doing before a pickup:
- Empty reels in one area, part-full reels kept apart.
- Steel reels set aside for return; check the stencil and serial number.
- Plywood reels in their own row. They do not qualify for maker programs and they do not stack well with nailed reels.
Then send the desk a count by flange size. A flatbed takes a mixed load of 30 to 60 inch reels in one trip.
Redevelopment
Landover is changing. The site of the old Landover Mall, demolished years ago, and land around the Metro stations are planned for new building, and housing has been going up in the area. Construction of that kind adds building wire and feeder reels to the industrial supply.
Utility work
Pepco serves most of Prince George’s, according to Maryland’s Office of People’s Counsel. Distribution work on the area’s older lines and for new buildings brings aluminium conductor on A-series reels and secondary cable on smaller ones.
Buyers
Landover’s buyers include event and party-rental businesses that use reels as tables, contractors who want working reels, and homeowners in Cheverly, Glenarden and Kettering who want garden reels.
Getting here
US-50 crosses Landover east to west; the Beltway crosses north to south with interchanges at US-50, Route 202 and Central Avenue. MD-704 (Martin Luther King Jr. Highway) runs from the District line through the middle.
Sending a request from Landover
- Count and measure. Count the reels and measure the largest flange edge to edge across the face. A photo with the tape in it is better than a guess.
- Check the build. Nailed lumber, plywood sheet, steel or plastic. Look for a stencil or tag naming the maker and the reel number.
- Set aside steel and tagged returnables with their serial numbers. Those go back to the maker, not to the desk.
- Say where they stand: yard, dock, garage level, alley or curb, plus clearance, gate hours, badging or escort a driver needs.
- Say what loads them: forklift, pallet jack, loader, ramp, or only people. Reels over 42 inches weigh more than 100 lb empty.
- Say how often: one time, weekly, monthly or at each job close-out.
- Buying instead? Give the flange and height you want, how many, and how the reel gets from the truck to where it will sit.
- No form handy? Email info@dcwoodenspools.com with the same details and a few photos.
Reels you are likely to have
| Reel | Build | Flange | Traverse | Drum | Lb | Usually carries |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| C-5 | Nailed wood | 23 | 17 | 12 | 34 | Copper building wire, grounding |
| A-10 | Nailed wood | 30 | 22 | 16 | 66 | Service drop, bare aluminium |
| N-24 | Nailed wood | 36 | 28 | 14 | 83 | Insulated and multiplex cable |
| A-29 | Nailed wood | 42 | 28 | 21 | 154 | Overhead conductor, feeders |
| A-38 | Nailed wood | 48 | 28 | 24 | 212 | Aluminium and ACSR, large feeders |
| A-62 | Nailed wood | 60 | 28 | 28 | 397 | Utility conductor |
| A-76 | Nailed wood | 66 | 28 | 30 | 473 | Heavy conductor |
| S-120 | Steel, returnable | 84 | 36 | 42 | 895 | Transmission and medium voltage |
Other makers' reels differ by an inch or two. All flange sizes · How to measure
Questions the desk gets
Should I sort reels before a Landover yard pickup?
It helps. Keep empties apart from part-full reels, set steel reels aside, and put plywood reels in their own row.
Does the desk take part-full reels?
Send a photo and the product on the reel. Part-full reels of usable cable are a different conversation from empties.
Sources
Each opened and read on 9 November 2026.
- Maryland Office of People's Counsel, Your Local Electricity Companies: which utility serves which Maryland counties
- Prince George's County Planning, Industrial Land Needs and Employment Study (2010): the county's inventory of industrial and warehouse space