Allegany County, Maryland

Allegany County Courthouse
administration
US state :	Maryland
Administrative headquarters :	Cumberland
Address of the administrative headquarters:	Allegany County Government Office Complex 701 Kelly Road Cumberland, MD, 21502-2803
Foundation :	1789
Made up from:	Washington County
Area code :	001 301
Demographics
Residents :	75,087  (2010)
Population density :	68.1 inhabitants / km 2
geography
Total area :	1113 km²
Water surface :	11 km²
map
Website : gov.allconet.org

The Allegany County is a county in the US state of Maryland . At the 2010 census , the county had 75,087 people and a population density of 68.1 people per square kilometer. The county seat is Cumberland .

geography

The county is separated from Pennsylvania to the north by the Mason-Dixon Line . To the south, the Potomac River forms the border with West Virginia . Allegany County covers an area of ​​1,113 square kilometers; of which eleven square kilometers (1.02 percent) are water areas. It borders on the following counties:

Somerset County, Pennsylvania	Bedford County, Pennsylvania	Fulton County, Pennsylvania
Garrett County		Washington County
Mineral County (West Virginia)	Hampshire County (West Virginia)	Morgan County, West Virginia

history

Allegany County was formed in 1789 from parts of Washington County. It was named after the word oolikhanna from the Lenni Lenape language , which means beautiful river .

44 buildings and sites in the county are listed on the National Register of Historic Places (as of November 11, 2017).

Demographic data

growth of population
Census	Residents		± in%
1830	10,590		-
1850	22,799		-
1900	53,694		-
1910	62,411		16.2%
1920	69,938		12.1%
1930	79,098		13.1%
1940	86,973		10%
1950	89,556		3%
1960	84.169		-6%
1970	84.044		-0.1%
1980	80,548		-4.2%
1990	74,946		-7%
2000	74,930		-0%
2010	75,087		0.2%
Before 1900 1900–1990 2000–2010

Waverly Street Bridge , listed on the NRHP

As of the 2010 census , Allegany County had 75,087 people in 28,777 households. The population density was 68.1 inhabitants per square kilometer.

The racial the population was composed of 89.2 percent white, 8.0 percent African American, 0.1 percent Native American, 0.8 percent Asian and other ethnic groups; 1.6 percent were descended from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race was 1.4 percent of the population.

Statistically, 2.34 people lived in each of the 28,777 households.

18.0 percent of the population were under 18 years old, 64.2 percent were between 18 and 64 and 17.8 percent were 65 years or older. 48.3 percent of the population was female.

The median income for a household was 37,747  USD . The per capita income was $ 20,764. 14.5 percent of the population lived below the poverty line.

Places in Allegany County

Citys

• Cumberland
• Frostburg

Towns

Barton Lonaconing hatch

Midland Westernport

Census-designated places (CDP)

Barrelville Bel Air Bowling green Bowman's addition Carlos Clarysville Corriganville

Cresaptown Danville Dawson Detmold Eckhart Mines Ellerslie Flintstone

Franklin Gilmore Grahamtown Klondike La Vale Little Orleans McCoole

Midlothian Moscow Mount Savage National Nikep Ocean Oldtown

Pleasant Grove Potomac Park Rawlings Spring gap Vale Summit Woodland Zihlman

other unincorporated communities

Allegany Grove Amcelle Bellegrove beer Black Oak Borden Shaft Brady Burrsville Carlos Junction Cedar Cliff Charlestown

dickens Dogwood Flats Eckhart Junction Evitts Creek Fair play Gannon Georges Creek Gilpin Green Ridge Hazen Hoffman

Homewood Horseshoe Curve Keifers Lap Loarville Locust Grove Lowndes McKenzie Miller Montel Morantown

Mount Savage Junction Narrows Park North Branch Piney Grove Pinto Pleasant Valley Pratt Pumpkin Center Red Hill Reynolds Roberts

Rush Sixmile House Slabtown South Cumberland Town Creek Triple Lakes Twiggtown Winchester Wolfe Mill Wrights Crossing Yonkers

structure

Allegany County is divided into 25 districts:

District	Population (2010)	FIPS
1, Orleans	936	24-90004
2, Oldtown	1,182	24-90096
3, Flintstone	1,048	24-90188
4, Cumberland	8,489	24-90281
5, Wills Creek	2,693	24-90372
6, Cumberland	7,957	24-90463
7, Cresaptown / Bel Air	5,883	24-90555
8, Westernport / Luke	3,457	24-90647
9, Barton	1,373	24-90740
10, Lonaconing	2.129	24-90832
11, West Frostburg	1,236	24-90926
12, East Frostburg	3,405	24-91012
13, Mount Savage	2,358	24-91104
14, Cumberland	951	24-91197
16, North Branch	3,591	24-91380
18, Midland / Shaft	2,160	24-91595
20, Corriganville / Ellerslie	2.118	24-91747
21, large	1,213	24-91840
22, Cumberland	3,147	24-91928
23, Decatur	3,046	24-92024
24, Eckhart	1,906	24-92116
26, Frostburg	5.422	24-92300
29, La Vale	6,173	24-92580
31, McCoole	1,580	24-92764
34, Bedford Road	1,634	24-92856

Individual evidence

1. ↑ GNIS-ID: 1713506. Retrieved on February 22, 2011 (English). 
2. ↑ ^{a b c} U.S. Census Bureau, State & County QuickFacts - Allegany County, MD ( June 6, 2011 memento on the Internet Archive ) Retrieved April 4, 2012
3. ^ National Association of Counties.Retrieved April 4, 2012
4. ↑ Search mask database in the National Register Information System. National Park Service , accessed November 11, 2017.
5. ^ US Census Bureau _ Census of Population and Housing.Retrieved February 18, 2011
6. ^ Extract from Census.gov.Retrieved February 18, 2011
7. ↑ Page no longer available , search web archives: Missouri Census Data Center - Maryland.Retrieved April 4, 2012

Web links

Commons : Allegany County, Maryland  - collection of pictures, videos, and audio files

• Allegany County Chamber of Commerce
• Maryland State Archives - Allegany County
• www.city-data.com

Coordinates: 39 ° 38 ′  N , 78 ° 41 ′  W