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Baltimore County (/ ˈbɔːltɪmɔːr / BAWL-tim-or, locally: / bɔːldəˈmɔːr / bawl-da-MOR or / ˈbɔːlmər / BAWL-mər[1]) is the third-most populous county in the U.S. state of Maryland. The county is part of the Central Maryland region of the state. Baltimore County partly surrounds but does not include the independent city of Baltimore.
Woodlawn is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Baltimore County, Maryland. Per the 2020 census, the population was 39,986. [3] It is home to the headquarters of the Social Security Administration (SSA) and the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). It is bordered by Catonsville on the south, by the Patapsco ...
The University of Maryland, Baltimore County [6] (UMBC) is a public research university in Catonsville, Maryland named after Baltimore County.It had a fall 2022 enrollment of 13,991 students, [7] 61 undergraduate majors, over 92 graduate programs (38 master, 25 doctoral, and 29 graduate certificate programs) and the first university research park in Maryland. [8]
There are 23 counties and one independent city in the U.S. state of Maryland. Though formally an independent city rather than a county, the City of Baltimore is considered the equal of a county for most purposes and is functionally a county-equivalent in most respects. Many of the counties in Maryland were named for relatives of the Barons ...
Baltimore County Executive. The Baltimore County Executive is the highest elected official representing the government of Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. The office was established with the implementation of the county charter for Baltimore County on November 6, 1956. [1] The county executive is elected to post every four years, [2 ...
Baltimore [a] is the most populous city in the U.S. state of Maryland.With a population of 585,708 at the 2020 census, it is the 30th-most populous US city. [15] Baltimore was designated an independent city by the Constitution of Maryland [b] in 1851, and is the most populous independent city in the nation.
Baltimore was the origin of a major railroad workers' strike in 1877 when the B&O company attempted to lower wages. On July 20, 1877, Maryland Governor John Lee Carroll called up the 5th and 6th Regiments of the National Guard to end the strikes, which had disrupted train service at Cumberland in western Maryland.
A Maryland state historical marker outside the historic 1855-1856 façade of the Baltimore County Courthouse on Washington Avenue, in Towson, Maryland. Originally constructed in 1854–55, at a cost then of thirty thousand dollars ($30,000), the building is one of the few H-plan buildings, public or private, remaining in the State.