La Plata, Maryland La Plata, Maryland Location of La Plata, Maryland Location of La Plata, Maryland Named for Rio de la Plata La Plata Listeni/l ple t / is a town in Charles County, Maryland, United States.
The populace was 8,753 at the 2010 census. It is the governmental center of county of Charles County. According to one of a several legends, the town was given its name by Colonel Samuel Chapman, whose family owned 6,000 acres (24 km2) of territory in Southern Maryland, including what would turn into the areas of La Plata and Port Tobacco.
In his travels, the Colonel was impressed with the La Plata River in Argentina, so he decided to name a portion of his property "La Plata" after the river. The town was established in 1888 after the river flowing into the previous county seat, Port Tobacco (a several miles to the west), silted up, ending that town's utility as a port.
At the same time, a new barns line made La Plata attractive as a new governmental center of county location.
The courthouse was assembled there after the Port Tobacco courthouse burned down (arson suspected, but unproven). Christ Episcopal Church was dismantled contemporary by contemporary and rebuilt in La Plata.
La Plata is positioned at 38 32 3 N 76 58 24 W (38.534258, -76.973377). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 7.45 square miles (19.30 km2), of which, 7.40 square miles (19.17 km2) is territory and 0.05 square miles (0.13 km2) is water. According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, La Plata has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. As of the census of 2010, there were 8,753 citizens , 3,062 homeholds, and 2,091 families residing in the town.
La Plata is largely a residentiary community.
The town is experiencing a transformation into a grow company and commercial center, thanks to evolution of office buildings and the town's recent ongoing standard .
Historic Mount Carmel (1790), a Catholic convent, is just outside La Plata, near the chief campus of the College of Southern Maryland. La Plata has county offices, University of Maryland Charles Regional Medical Center (recently enlarged), the chief campus of the College of Southern Maryland, a improve theater (Port Tobacco Players), a large outside athletic complex, a large assembly business, two nursing homes, and a host of stores and restaurants, in addition to a twice-weekly farmers' market. At the north edge of town are Walmart and Target department stores, three supermarkets, a Lowe's home-improvement store, and two all-night drugstores. Rosewick Road is connected with St.
Public schools in La Plata include La Plata High School, Milton Somers Middle School, Walter Mitchell Elementary, and Mary Matula Elementary.
La Plata has been impacted by two primary tornadoes in its history.
This tornado killed 16 citizens , thirteen of them in the La Plata Elementary School, which was destroyed. It was estimated to have been an F3 on the Fujita scale. On April 28, 2002, an F4 tornado cut a 24-mile-long (39 km) swath through Charles County, with areas around La Plata damaged most severely.
A new La Plata Town Hall, for example, became Southern Maryland's first LEED certified building, and an old building considered historic by small-town residents, which homed a CVS Pharmacy store at the time of the tornado, was rebuilt in a new locale after the storm.
For details on the tornado outbreak of which the 2002 tornado was a part, see the knowledge on the Midwest to Mid-Atlantic United States tornado outbreak of 2002.
"Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): La Plata town, Maryland".
"How La Plata Got Its Name" (PDF).
Town Notes: News from La Plata Town Hall.
"La Plata, Maryland Koppen Climate Classification (Weatherbase)".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
"La Plata Farmers Market - La Plata, MD - Local-Farmers-Markets.Com".
"La Plata's retail boom continues with eateries".
"The Tornado in Southern Maryland, November 3, 1926".
"Rebuilding La Plata after the storm".
"La Plata Town Hall Is First 'Green' Building in S.Md.".
Town of La Plata.
Wikivoyage has a travel guide for La Plata, Maryland.
Town of La Plata official website Municipalities and communities of Charles County, Maryland, United States County seats of Maryland
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