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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

Montgomery County, Maryland

Montgomery County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

County Seat: Rockville
Year Organized: 1776
Square Miles: 495

Court House:

101 Monroe St
Rockville, MD 20850-2503

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Richard Montgomery, an American Revolutionary War general

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

History

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Neighboring Counties:

Northeast: Carroll County; Howard County
Southeast: Prince George's County; Washington city,D.C.;Arlington County, Va.
South: Fairfax County, Va.
West: Loudoun County, Va.
Northwest: Frederick County

Cities and Towns:

- Barnesville	town	Incorporated Area
- Brookeville	town	Incorporated Area
- Chevy Chase	town	Incorporated Area
- Chevy Chase Section Five	village	Incorporated Area
- Chevy Chase Section Three	village	Incorporated Area
- Chevy Chase View	town	Incorporated Area
- Gaithersburg	city	Incorporated Area
- Garrett Park	town	Incorporated Area
- Glen Echo	town	Incorporated Area
- Kensington	town	Incorporated Area
- Laytonsville	town	Incorporated Area
- Martin's Additions	village	Incorporated Area
- North Chevy Chase	village	Incorporated Area
- Poolesville	town	Incorporated Area
- Rockville (County Seat)	city	Incorporated Area
- Somerset	town	Incorporated Area
- Takoma Park	city	Incorporated Area
- Washington Grove	town	Incorporated Area

County Resources:

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County Resource Guide

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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, act locally."

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