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La Plata (/ l ə ˈ p l eɪ t ə / lə-PLAY-tə) [3] is a town in Charles County, Maryland, United States. The population was 10,159 at the 2020 census . [ 4 ] It is the county seat of Charles County.
La Plata (Spanish pronunciation: [la ˈplata]) is the capital city of Buenos Aires province, Argentina.According to the 2022 census, the Partido has a population of 772,618 and its metropolitan area, the Greater La Plata, has 938,287 inhabitants. [2]
The state highway was constructed from La Plata to Riverside in the late 1910s and early 1920s. The La Plata–Charlotte Hall section of the highway was built in the mid-1920s. The portion of MD 6 east of Charlotte Hall was mostly built in the late 1920s and early 1930s. The final section of the state highway was completed in Oraville in 1940.
The highway was constructed as a 14-foot (4.3 m) gravel road from Indian Head to Mason Springs in 1913 and from La Plata to Ripley in 1915. [5] The gap between Mason Springs and Ripley was filled by 1919. [6] [7] In La Plata, the highway's eastern terminus was originally Washington Avenue, which was the original alignment of MD 3 and later US ...
Known as La Plata Road, the state highway runs 6.01 miles (9.67 km) from MD 6 in La Plata east to MD 5 near Bryantown. MD 488 is a connector between La Plata and eastern Charles County, including the town of Hughesville. The state highway was constructed in the mid-1930s.
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La Plata is a city in Macon County, Missouri, United States. The population was 1,257 at the 2020 census, [5] down from 1,366 in 2010. La Plata is located next to the Adair County line and is on a mainline of the BNSF Railway. The town is best known for La Plata station, which provides passenger rail service to Chicago and Los Angeles.
A small portion of the town's square incorporated in 1888 as Port Tobacco Village, [7] [8] a move that may have signaled an effort by the community to reverse its decline, but new communities eventually sprang up along the railway and prospered, including the town of La Plata which succeeded Port Tobacco as the county seat in 1895.