Bel Air, Harford County, Maryland "Bel Air, Maryland"

It is not to be confused with Bel Air, Allegany County, Maryland.

Bel Air, Harford County, Maryland Town of Bel Air Location of Bel Air, Maryland Location of Bel Air, Maryland Website Bel Air, Maryland The town of Bel Air is the governmental center of county of Harford County, Maryland. According to the 2010 United States Enumeration the populace of the town was 10,120. 4.1 Bel Air Police Department Bel Air is positioned at 39 32 12 N 76 20 54 W (39.536707, -76.348280). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 3.03 square miles (7.85 km2), of which, 3.02 square miles (7.82 km2) is territory and 0.01 square miles (0.03 km2) is water. Bel Air is a transition between the humid continental and humid subtropical climates.

Bel Air features hot, often humid summers, mild, wet springs, pleasant falls and cool to cold winters.

The average rain for Bel Air is around 40-43 inches while snow flurry averages 19 24 inches.

Bel Air is positioned on U.S.

Route 1 has both a bypass around Bel Air and Hickory, and a company route snaking through downtown.

Both are connected to I-95 by Maryland Route 24 (at Edgewood) and Maryland Route 543 (at Riverside).

Much of the barns 's former route in and around Bel Air is now the Ma and Pa walking trail, which cuts through various wooded sections of town in and around Heavenly Waters Park.

Bel Air Police Department Bel Air's major law enforcement agency is the Bel Air Police Department which was established in 1874.

Overseeing the department is Charles Moore, lifelong Harford County resident and former Maryland State Police captain. There were 4,491 homeholds of which 26.9% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 41.0% were married couples living together, 11.4% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 4.8% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 42.8% were non-families.

The median age in the town was 40.3 years.

20.5% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 8.9% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 26.1% were from 25 to 44; 26.1% were from 45 to 64; and 18.4% were 65 years of age or older.

The census of 2000 reports that there were 10,080 citizens , 4,235 homeholds, and 2,511 families residing in the town.

There were 4,235 homeholds out of which 28.2% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 45.2% were married couples living together, 10.4% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 40.7% were non-families.

Bel Air's identity has gone through a several incarnations since 1780.

Four years later, the town had period as small-town politicians, merchants, and innkeepers purchased lots from Scott, and the county commissioners decided to change its name to the more appealing "Belle Aire." Around 1798, court records dropped two more letters, and "Bel Air" was born.

During this period, Bel Air began to rise in prominence.

In 1782, just two years after its founding, it became Harford's county seat, and Daniel Scott (Aquilla's son) started building a courthouse on Main Street.

Originally known as "Scott's Old Fields" Bel Air was part of a territory grant issued to Daniel Scott in 1731.

In March 1782 "Belle Aire" was designated the governmental center of county of Harford County.

The town began with just 42 lots along Main Street centering on the Court House and the county jail and sheriff's home.

Although the town experienced periods of rapid expansion followed by extremely slow expansion over the next century, Bel Air's part as the center of government and commerce continued to expand.

Today, Bel Air is the center for governmental, educational, cultural, medical, and commercial establishments in the county.

Rap Brown, a member of the Black Panthers, was charged with instigating a brawl after a rally in Cambridge; a change in venue brought his trial to Bel Air.

In an attempt to assassinate Brown, radicals drove to Bel Air in a car laden with plastic explosives, intending to take down the courthouse.

Into the 1950s, the town hosted horse racing at Bel Air Racetrack, which stood where the Harford Mall is today.

The Bel Air Armory, Bel Air Courthouse Historic District, Broom's Bloom, D.

Springhouse, Dibb House, Graham-Crocker House, Graystone Lodge, Harford Furnace Historic District, Harford National Bank, Hays House, Hays-Heighe House, Heighe House, Joshua's Meadows, Liriodendron, Mount Adams, Norris-Stirling House, Odd Fellows Lodge, Priest Neal's Mass House and Mill Site, Proctor House, Thomas Run Church, Tudor Hall, The Vineyard, and Woodview are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Melvin Mora, former Baltimore Orioles player, lived in Bel Air "Charles Moore sworn in as Bel Air's new police chief".

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