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Towson
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suburb of Baltimore, Maryland, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Maryland
- County
- Baltimore
- Total
- 14.29 sq mi (37.01 km )
- Land
- 14.15 sq mi (36.66 km )
- Water
- 0.14 sq mi (0.35 km )
- Elevation
- 463 ft (141 m)
- Density
- 4,207.7/sq mi (1,624.62/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 (EDT)
- Zip codes
- 21286, 21204, 21252, 21212, 21209, 21210, 21239 (county)
- Area codes
- 410, 443, and 667
- Fips code
- 24-78425
- Gnis feature id
- 0591420
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- census-designated place in the United States
- Official name
- Towson
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Baltimore County
- Population
- 59553
- Area
- 36.992028
- Elevation
- 141
- Capital of
- Baltimore County
- Shares border with
- Lutherville-Timonium
- Official website
- www.towson.com
- Image
- Towson Courthouse.jpg
- Households
- 21013
- Dialing code
- 410
Show 10 more facts
- P12749
- Shree
- postal code
- 21284
- Commons category
- Towson, Maryland
- topic's main category
- Category:Towson, Maryland
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Towson, Maryland
- inception
- 1750-00-00
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Towson, Maryland
- water as percent of area
- 0.9549
- located in the statistical territorial entity
- Baltimore metropolitan area
- per capita income
- 49758
via Wikidata · CC0
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Encyclopedic overview
Towson (/ˈtaʊsən/) is an unincorporated community and a census-designated place in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States. The population was 59,533 in the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Baltimore County and the second-most populous unincorporated county seat in the United States (after Ellicott City, the seat of nearby Howard County, southwest of Baltimore).
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Towson” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.