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Maryland Counties
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Maryland Counties
There is 24 counties and county-equivalents in Maryland. Though an independent city
rather than a county, the City of Baltimore is considered the equal of a county. Many of the counties in
Maryland were named for relatives of the Barons Baltimore who were the proprietors of the Maryland colony from
its founding in 1634 through 1771. The Barons Baltimore were Catholic, and George Calvert, 1st Baron Baltimore,
originally intended that the colony be a haven for English Catholics, though for the majority of its history
Maryland has had a majority of Protestants |
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Baltimore City , Maryland
Baltimore City History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Baltimore
Year Organized: 1851
Square Miles: 81
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Court House: 100 North Holliday Street
City Hall
Baltimore, MD 21202-3427
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore, first proprietor of the Maryland colony
Demographics:
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History
Baltimore (pronounced /bɒltɨmɔr/) is an independent city and the largest city in the state of Maryland in the United
States. Founded in 1729. Detached in 1851 from Baltimore County
Geography
Baltimore is in north-central Maryland on the Patapsco River close to where it empties into the Chesapeake Bay.
The city is also located on the fall line between the Piedmont Plateau and the Atlantic Coastal Plain, which divides
Baltimore into "lower city" and "upper city". The city's elevation ranges from sea level at the harbor to 480 feet
(150 m) in the northwest corner near Pimlico.
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 92.1 square miles (238.5 kmē), of which, 80.8
square miles (209.3 kmē) of it is land and 11.3 square miles (29.2 kmē) of it is water. The total area is 12.24
percent water.
Neighboring Counties:
The City of Baltimore is bordered by the following communities, all unincorporated census-designated places. All
are in adjacent Baltimore County, except Brooklyn Park and Glen Burnie, which are in adjacent Anne Arundel County.
In addition, the southern part of the city is bordered by another unincorporated part of northeastern Anne Arundel
County.
- Arbutus
- Brooklyn Park
- Catonsville
- Dundalk
- Glen Burnie
- Lansdowne-Baltimore Highlands
- Lochearn
- Overlea
- Parkville
- Pikesville
- Rosedale
- Towson
- Woodlawn
City Resources:
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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic
features of our country!"
But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.
Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally,
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