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Frederick é uma cidade localizada no estado americano de Maryland, no Condado de Frederick, do qual é sede.. Foi fundada em 1745. Com pouco mais de 78 mil habitantes, de acordo com o censo nacional de 2020, [2] é a segunda cidade mais populosa do estado.
Frederick is a city in, and the county seat of, Frederick County, Maryland, United States. Frederick's population was 78,171 people as of the 2020 census, making it the second-largest incorporated city in Maryland behind Baltimore. It is a part of the Washington metropolitan area and the greater Washington–Baltimore combined ...
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The namesake of Frederick County and its county seat is unknown, but it was probably either Frederick, Prince of Wales, or Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore.
Frederick County was created in 1748 by the Province of Maryland from parts of Prince George's County and Baltimore County. In 1776, following US independence, Frederick County was divided into three parts. The westernmost portion became Washington County, named after George Washington, the southernmost portion became Montgomery County, named after...
According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 667 square miles (1,730 km2), of which 660 square miles (1,700 km2) is land and 7.2 square miles (19 km2) (1.1%) is water.It is the largest county in Maryland in terms of land area. Frederick County straddles the boundary between the Piedmont Plateau Region and the Appalachian Moun...
Frederick County has experienced a rapid increase in population in recent[when?]years, including that of minority groups.
Charter government
On December 1, 2014, Frederick County changed to a "charter home rulegovernment". Voters approved this governmental change at the November 6, 2012, election with 62,469 voting for the transition and 37,368 against. Previously, Frederick County had been governed by a five-member county commission that could only legislate in local matters with the prior consent of the Maryland General Assembly. Even that authority was limited to areas authorized by the General Assembly, enabling legislation, o...
Politics
Like the rest of German-influenced Western Maryland, Frederick County was once staunchly Republican, with Lyndon B. Johnson in 1964 being the last Democrat to carry it in a presidential election until Joe Biden carried the county in 2020. The growth of the county with migration from Washington D.C. had begun to narrow the margins starting from 2008, with John McCain only edging out Barack Obamaby only 1,157 votes out of over one hundred thousand cast in the 2008 election. Democratic strength...
Public safety
The Frederick County Sheriff's Office provides court protection, jail management and morgue operation for the entire county. It provides police patrol and detective services within the unincorporated areas of Frederick County. The entire county entails a population of 222,938 within 662.88 square miles (1,716.9 km2). Frederick City, Brunswick, Mount Airy, Emmitsburg and Thurmont have municipal police departments. Middletown contracts with the Sheriff's Office for its policing.
The following table includes the number of incidents reported for each type of offense from 2012 to 2019.
The U.S. Census Bureau reported the following data for Frederick County, June 6, 2011. According to the Maryland Department of Business and Economic Development, the following are the principal employers in Frederick County. This list excludes U.S. post officesand state and local governments, but includes public institutions of higher education. Fr...
Cities
1. Brunswick 2. Frederick(county seat)
Village
1. Rosemont
Census-designated places
The Census Bureau recognizes the following census-designated placesin the county:
The school district for the county is Frederick County Public Schools. A statewide school for the deaf, Maryland School for the Deaf, is in Frederick.
Notable people from Frederick County include: 1. Shadrach Bond, first governor of Illinois 2. Lawrence Everhart, soldier in the American Revolutionary War 3. Barbara Fritchie, Unionist subject of 1863 Civil War poem by John Greenleaf Whittier 4. Thomas Johnson, delegate to First Continental Congress and U.S. Supreme Court judge 5. Francis Scott Key...
Frederick, city, seat (1748) of Frederick county, north-central Maryland, U.S., situated on a tributary of the Monocacy River 47 miles (76 km) west of Baltimore. Laid out in 1745 as Frederick Town, it was presumably named for Frederick Calvert, 6th Baron Baltimore, although it may have been for Frederick Louis, prince of Wales.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Frederick é uma cidade localizada no estado americano de Maryland, no Condado de Frederick, do qual é sede.. Foi fundada em 1745. Com pouco mais de 78 mil habitantes, de acordo com o censo nacional de 2020, é a segunda cidade mais populosa do estado.
Learn about the crossroads of American history in Frederick County, where George Washington, Frederick Douglass, and Abraham Lincoln walked the same streets. Discover historic sites, museums, and architecture that tell the stories of the Civil War, the B&O Railroad, and the C&O Canal.
Frederick, Maryland. Frederick is a city in the U.S. state of Maryland. It is the county seat of Frederick County. As of 2020, the population of the city was 78,171.
