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Location of Catonsville, Maryland Location of Catonsville, Maryland Catonsville is a census-designated place (CDP) in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States.

The populace was 41,567 at the 2010 census. The improve lies to the west of Baltimore along the city's border.

Catonsville contains the majority of University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC), a primary enhance research college with close to 14,000 students.

Europeans were the second group to settle the region now known as Catonsville.

Catonsville was positioned along the Piscataway Trail.

In the early 19th century, a county road along the Patapsco River titled the Frederick Turnpike, later designated Route 144 was opened by the Ellicott family to serve traffic between their flour mill, Ellicott Mills, and Baltimore.

Travelers along "the turnpike" (as it was then known) rested and conducted company in the area, causing Catonsville to grow.

The large Victorian and Colonial homes positioned in Catonsville were assembled by wealthy Baltimoreans.

Eventually, as in many communities with the introduction of the automobile and electric street car, families began to reside in Catonsville year round.

Baltimore attempted over the years to annex Catonsville, the last attempt in 1918, but all attempts were rebuffed.

Timothy's School for Girls in Catonsville, to fulfill a promise he made to a young girl he had met on the steamer Minnehaha in 1907.

Catonsville was briefly made quite famous amid the 1968 protest by the "Catonsville Nine", amid which draft records were burned by Catholic anti-war activists.

In 2002, the Maryland council issued a proclamation declaring Catonsville to be "Music City, Maryland", because of the concentration of musical retail stores, venues and educational facilities in the area.

In 2007 Money periodical ranked Catonsville the 49th best place to live in the USA, third best in Maryland and Virginia.

Catonsville is positioned at 39 16 26 N 76 44 17 W (39.273756, 76.738012). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the CDP has a total region of 14.0 square miles (36 km2), all of it land.

It is centered along Frederick Road (Maryland Route 144), formerly the chief road from Baltimore dominant to points west.

Johnnycake Road and Academy Road form the northern and northeastern borders of Catonsville.

Catonsville is bordered by Woodlawn to the north, Baltimore to the east, by Arbutus to the southeast, by Ilchester to the southwest, and by Ellicott City to the west.

In addition to Frederick Road (Exit 13), Interstate 695 (the Baltimore Beltway) services Wilkens Avenue (Maryland Route 372), Edmondson Avenue and the Baltimore National Pike (U.S.

The chief north-south roads in the region are Rolling Road (which is also Maryland Route 166 south of Frederick Road), Ingleside Avenue and Bloomsbury Avenue.

College Hills, a newer residentiary improve encircling the Community College of Baltimore County and the University of Maryland, Baltimore County.

Paradise, positioned east of Downtown Catonsville.

Summit Park, positioned northwest above Frederick Road adjoining to the Baltimore County Public Library Western Hills, positioned north of Downtown Catonsville along North Rolling Road.

In 2010 Catonsville had a populace of 41,567.

Residents are zoned to schools in the Baltimore County Public Schools.

Catonsville High School, Woodlawn Senior High School (center for science and pre engineering),and Western School of Technology and Environmental Science, formerly Western Vocational Technical Center, serve the area.

Mount de Sales Academy is a Catholic all-girls high school in Catonsville.

Saint Mark School and Parish can be found in Catonsville on Melvin Avenue, just off of Frederick Road.

Al-Rahmah School is an Islamic school in Northern Catonsville, on Johhnycake Road.

The University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) is positioned in Catonsville.

The Community College of Baltimore County, formerly known as Catonsville Community College, has a ground in Catonsville athwart the street from Catonsville High School.

Center for Art, Design and Visual Culture at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County Catonsville Community Park Hilton (Catonsville, Maryland) Since 1947, Catonsville has jubilated Independence Day with children's games in the morning, a parade in the afternoon, and a fireworks display at evening. The children's games include a decorated bike contest, lollipop scramble, ball on spoon race, leapfrog, wheelbarrow and sack competitions, and a water balloon toss. The parade travels down Frederick Road and is attended by over 60,000 citizens each year.

Residents reserve prime viewing locations by placing their folding chairs along the parade route a week or two in advance of the celebration. The parade contains floats from politicians, small-town businesses, schools and churches along with marching bands, including Baltimore's Marching Ravens.

The fireworks display takes place on the grounds of Catonsville High School in the evening.

George Maisel, former Major League Baseball player, Baltimore Terrapins UMBC Retrievers, collegiate athletic division for the University of Maryland, Baltimore County a b "Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Catonsville CDP, Maryland".

2010 general populace and housing profile of Catonsville from the US Enumeration "Catonsville July 4th Celebration Kids' Games | Catonsville, Maryland 21228".

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