Dayton, Maryland | |
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  Dayton Location in Maryland | |
| Coordinates: 39°17′38″N77°4′8″W / 39.29389°N 77.06889°W | |
| Country |  United States of America |
| State |  Maryland |
| County |  Howard |
| Elevation | 168 m (551 ft) |
| Population | |
| • Total | 2,114 |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (EST) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
| Area code | 240 and 301 |
Dayton is an unincorporated community located in Howard County, Maryland, United States.
Dayton is located southwest of Baltimore and north of Washington, D.C., between Clarksville and Glenelg.
A postal office operated in the community from 21 July 1864 to present with brief stops in service during the American Civil War. [1] By 1878, the town expanded to three general stores and a wheelwright shop. One of the former is Maloney's General Store, built shortly after the Civil War, which served as a stagecoach stop and was later owned by Royal Harp III, Thomas Isaacs, Mr White, and the Grant family. [2]
The Dayton single-room school house was located along Green Bridge Road. After a fire in the single-room schoolhouse for colored children, a new brown tile two-room school was built at the crossroads of Ten Oaks, Green Bridge and Howard roads, and the colored children moved to the old white school. The two-room school is now on property owned by RLO Contractors. [3]
Dayton is in the 21036 zip code area and belongs to the 410 area code. Local landmarks are the Crossroads Pub (Floyd's Crossroads Pub since 2014 [4] ) famed for their Maryland blue crabs and once owned by the Harp family (Harp's Pub), who also owned Harp's grocery store, the Post Office, Hobbs Service Station, and a large wooden rabbit (severely damaged and removed in the mid-2010s), which was decorated for major holidays. The post office is still operating today.[ dubious ]
Dayton is also the home to the annual Dayton Daze Parade that began in honor of Lenny Hobbs. The Hobbs Family gas station was prominent in the crossroads community. [5]
Although rural, Dayton is a high-income area, with a median household income of $196,494 in 2013, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
The 21036 zip code is the wealthiest in the Baltimore metropolitan area as of 2013, with an average family net worth of $1.85 million, and is listed as a "super" zip code. [6] The median home value was $750,000 in 2013, with an average home size of 4,923 square feet. [7]
In 2014, a zoning case to move a large industrial mulching operation operated by a Sandy Spring Bank executive and RLO[ clarification needed ] president from Trinity Church in Elkridge to agricultural preservation land in Dayton prompted a large citizen reaction. [8]
Potomac is a census-designated place (CDP) in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States, named after the nearby Potomac River. Potomac is the seventh most educated small town in America, based on percentage of residents with postsecondary degrees. Bloomberg Businessweek labeled Potomac as the twenty-ninth-richest zip code in the United States in 2011, stating that it had the largest population of any U.S. town with a median income of more than $240,000. In 2012, The Higley Elite 100 published a list of highest-income neighborhoods by mean household income, which included four neighborhoods in Potomac; one of these neighborhoods, "Carderock-The Palisades" was ranked the highest-income neighborhood in the United States, followed by "Beverly Hills-North of Sunset" in Beverly Hills, California and "Swinks Mill-Dominion Reserve" of McLean, Virginia. More recently, two Potomac neighborhoods were ranked among the ten wealthiest neighborhoods in the country by CNBC in 2014. In 2018, data from the American Community Survey revealed that Potomac was the sixth-wealthiest city in the United States. Many Potomac residents work in nearby Washington, D.C.
Clarksville is an unincorporated community in Howard County, Maryland; the second highest-earning county in the United States according to the U.S. Census Bureau. The community is named for William Clark, a farmer who owned much of the land on which the community now lies and served as a postal stop that opened on the 4th of July 1851.
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Norrisville is an unincorporated community in Harford County, Maryland, United States, located just south of the Pennsylvania state line in the extreme northwest section of the county. It is primarily a farming community full of rolling hills and small valleys, and is part of the Deer Creek watershed. The area is served by two state roads, Maryland routes 23 and 136. A demographic profile estimates that the Norrisville area had a population of 2,931 as of 2000. It lies at an elevation of 741 feet (226 m). Norrisville is part of the White Hall zip code 21161, whose post office is located just over the Baltimore County line.
Glenwood is an unincorporated community in Howard County, Maryland, United States. It is located between Baltimore and Washington, D.C., therefore attracting commuters to those employment centers. The community features acres of open space and is districted to Bushy Park Elementary, Glenwood and Folly Quarter Middle, and Glenelg High schools. Union Chapel was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1975 and Round About Hills was added in 2008. The population in 2020 was approximately 3,416.
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Atholton is an unincorporated community in Howard County, Maryland, United States. A postal office operated from May 26, 1897, to November 1900 and again from 1903 to July 1917.
Florence is an unincorporated community in Howard County, Maryland, United States. A post office operated in Florence between June 17, 1868, and March 31, 1906. Governor Edwin Warfield taught in the neighborhood one room schoolhouse.
Gary is an unincorporated community in Howard County, Maryland, United States. A postal stop operated between February 2, 1892, and June 13, 1918. The town is located at the crossroads of Sharp and Tridelphia Road near modern Woodbine, Maryland.
Ivory is an unincorporated community located at the northwest tip of Howard County, Maryland, United States. It is located between modern Glenelg and West Friendship.
Guilford Road is a historic road north of Savage, Maryland that traverses Anne Arundel and Howard Counties in an area that was first settled by English colonists in the mid-1600s. Today's Guilford road is a series of disconnected segments bisected multiple times by the construction of Maryland Route 32.
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Coordinates: 39°15′06″N76°59′27″W / 39.25167°N 76.99083°W
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