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Oakland is a town in and the county seat of Garrett County, Maryland, United States. The population was 1,851 at the 2020 census. It is situated only miles from the source of the Potomac River, which flows directly into Chesapeake Bay. It is also near the Wisp Resort at Deep Creek Lake. Oakland is part of the Pittsburgh media market.
Oakland Historic District is a national historic district in Oakland, Garrett County, Maryland.It is an L-shaped area in the central and older section of Oakland containing 206 buildings.
Garrett County (/ ɡ ɛr ɪ t /) is the westernmost county of the U.S. state of Maryland completely within the Appalachian Mountains. As of the 2020 census , the population was 28,806, [ 1 ] making it the third-least populous county in Maryland.
Map of the United States with Maryland highlighted. Maryland is a state located in the Southern United States. [1] As of the 2020 United States census, Maryland is the 18th-most populous state with 6,177,224 inhabitants and the ninth-smallest by land area, spanning 9,707.24 square miles (25,141.6 km 2) of land. [2]
Map Allegany County: 001: Cumberland: 1789: Formed from part of Washington County: From Lenape oolikhanna, which means "beautiful stream" 67,273: 430 sq mi (1,114 km 2) Anne Arundel County: 003: Annapolis: 1650: Formed from part of St. Mary's County: Anne Arundell was the maiden name of the wife of Cecil Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore.
It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places listings in Garrett County, Maryland in 1974 as the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Station, Oakland. [1] It was revived for service on Amtrak's Shenandoah between 1976 and 1981. The city of Oakland bought the station in 1998, and in 2000 restored it with help from the State of Maryland. [2]
U.S. Route 40 (US 40) in the U.S. state of Maryland runs from Garrett County in Western Maryland to Cecil County in the state's northeastern corner. With a total length of 221 miles (356 km), it is the longest numbered highway in Maryland.
The lake is a result of the Youghiogheny Hydroelectric Company hydroelectric project on Deep Creek in the 1920s. Deep Creek Dam, located about 8 miles (13 km) north of Oakland, Maryland, consists of an earth and rock wall dam across a tributary of the Youghiogheny River.