Pikesville, Maryland Pikesville, Maryland The entrance to Pikesville High School, positioned at the intersection of Labyrinth Road and Smith Avenue.
The entrance to Pikesville High School, positioned at the intersection of Labyrinth Road and Smith Avenue.
Location of Pikesville, Maryland Location of Pikesville, Maryland Pikesville is a census-designated place (CDP) in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States.
Pikesville is just northwest of the Baltimore town/city limits.
The populace was 30,764 at the 2010 census. The corridor along Interstate 795, which links Pikesville, Owings Mills and Reisterstown to the Baltimore Beltway (Interstate 695), contains one of the larger Jewish populations in Maryland.
8 Pikesville in national/international news Pikesville is positioned at 39 22 45 N 76 42 18 W (39.379039, 76.705091). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the CDP has a total region of 12.4 square miles (32.1 km2), of which 32.0 square kilometres (12.4 sq mi) is territory and 0.03 square miles (0.07 km2), or 0.22%, is water. In the CDP, the populace was spread out with 19.7% under the age of 18, 5.3% from 18 to 24, 24.4% from 25 to 44, 27.0% from 45 to 64, and 23.6% who were 65 years of age or older.
In 2000, 19.3% of Pikesville inhabitants identified as being of Russian heritage.
Virtually all of them are Ashkenazi Jews whose ancestors immigrated from the Russian Empire. In 2000, 3.7% of Pikesville inhabitants identified as being of Ukrainian American heritage.
8% of Pikesville's inhabitants were German, 7% Polish, 4% Irish, 3% English, and 2% Italian. In the 19th and early 20th centuries Jewish immigrants to the Baltimore region first formed enclaves in East Baltimore not far from Johns Hopkins Hospital in neighborhoods such as Broadway East, Jonestown, Middle East and Oliver.
After World War II, the Jewish improve started to move outside of Baltimore City into Pikesville which was a sleepy outpost on a primary road that led to Western Maryland.
Pikesville (and more recently its neighboring communities to the north, Owings Mills and Reisterstown) have been considered the center of the Baltimore area's Jewish improve since the mid nineteen fifties (referred to by inhabitants as "100,000 Jews in three zip codes"). Many of the region's biggest and most established Jewish churchs and Jewish schools are positioned in or near Pikesville.
Pikesville was titled after the American soldier and explorer Zebulon Pike (1779 1813).
While there are places titled for Pike in many other states, Pikesville, Maryland, is the only place titled "Pikesville" (compare Pikeville, Kentucky).
Pikesville is served by a several elementary, middle, and high schools and higher-education facilities: Pikesville Middle School Pikesville High School The Maryland State Police is headquartered at 1201 Reisterstown Road in the Pikesville CDP. The Baltimore Metro Subway runs through Pikesville, with two stops in the area, both titled for the roads on which they are located: Milford Mill and Old Court.
Maryland Transit Administration bus routes serving Pikesville include nos.
53 and 59 on Reisterstown Road, 53 and 77 on Old Court Road, 54 on Milford Mill Road/Slade Avenue, and 58 and 60 on Smith Avenue.
Pikesville in national/international news He and Anthony Grandison are presently on death row for the murders of two clerks at the Warren House Motel (currently a Howard Johnson) in Pikesville in 1983. "Profile of General Population and Housing Characteristics: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (DP-1): Pikesville CDP, Maryland".
"Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Pikesville CDP, Maryland".
As a Enumeration Designated Place, the boundaries may have changed arbitrarily in each decennial census.
"Pikesville, MD, Ancestry & Family History".
About Maalot Baltimore "Pikesville CDP, Maryland." Pikesville travel guide from Wikivoyage Municipalities and communities of Baltimore County, Maryland, United States Arbutus Baltimore Highlands Bowleys Quarters Carney Catonsville Cockeysville Dundalk Edgemere Essex Garrison Hampton Kingsville Lansdowne Lochearn Lutherville Mays Chapel Middle River Milford Mill Overlea Owings Mills Parkville Perry Hall Pikesville Randallstown Reisterstown Rosedale Rossville Timonium Towson White Marsh Woodlawn
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Pikesville, Maryland - Census-designated places in Baltimore County, Maryland - Census-designated places in Maryland - Jewish communities in the United States - Jews and Judaism in Baltimore County, Maryland - Polish-Jewish culture in Maryland - Russian communities in the United States - Russian-Jewish culture in Maryland - Ukrainian communities in the United States - Ukrainian-Jewish culture in Maryland
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