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Frederick, MD

Frederick, Maryland
City
City of Frederick
Downtown Frederick in September 2015
Downtown Frederick in September 2015
Motto: "The City of Clustered Spires"
Location in Frederick County and the state of Maryland
Location in Frederick County and the state of Maryland
Frederick is located in Maryland
Frederick
Frederick
Frederick is located in the US
Frederick
Frederick
Location within the state of Maryland
Coordinates: 39°24′50″N 77°24′40″W / 39.41389°N 77.41111°W / 39.41389; -77.41111Coordinates: 39°24′50″N 77°24′40″W / 39.41389°N 77.41111°W / 39.41389; -77.41111
Country  United States
State  Maryland
County Frederick
Founded 1745
Government
 • Mayor Randy McClement (R-MD)
 • Board of Aldermen Kelly Russell (D-MD)
Michael O'Connor (D-MD)
Josh Bokee (D-MD)
Donna Kuzemchak (D-MD)
Phil Dacey (R-MD)
Area
 • City 59.89 km2 (23.13 sq mi)
 • Land 59.41 km2 (22.94 sq mi)
 • Water 0.48 km2 (0.19 sq mi)
Elevation 92 m (302 ft)
Population (2010)
 • City 65,239
 • Estimate (2015) 69,479
 • Density 1,145.5/km2 (2,966.8/sq mi)
 • Urban 141,576 (US: 230th)
 • Metro (US: 7th) 6,097,684
Time zone EST (UTC-5)
 • Summer (DST) EDT (UTC-4)
Area code(s) 301, 240
FIPS code 24-30325
GNIS feature ID 0584497
Highways I-70, I-270, US 15, US 40, US 340, MD 80, MD 144, MD 355
Website www.CityOfFrederick.com

Frederick is a city and the county seat of Frederick County in the U.S. state of Maryland. It is part of the Baltimore–Washington Metropolitan Area. Frederick has been an important crossroads community since it was located in colonial times at the intersection of an important north–south Indian trail, and east–west routes to the Chesapeake Bay both at Baltimore and what became Washington, D.C. and across the Appalachian mountains to the Ohio River watershed. It is a part of the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is part of a greater Washington-Baltimore-Arlington, DC-MD-VA-WV-PA Combined Statistical Area. The city's population was 65,239 people at the 2010 United States Census, making it the second-largest incorporated city in Maryland, behind Baltimore.

Frederick is home to Frederick Municipal Airport (IATA: FDK), which primarily accommodates general aviation traffic, and to the county's largest employer U.S. Army's Fort Detrick bioscience/communications research installation.

Located where (the easternmost ridge of the Blue Ridge mountains) meets the rolling hills of the Piedmont region, the Frederick area became a crossroads even before European explorers and traders arrived. Native American hunters (known to Virginia colonists as "Susquehannocks", which might be Algonquian-speaking Shawnee or more likely Seneca or Tuscarora or other members of the Iroquois Confederation) followed the Monocacy River from the Susquehanna River watershed in Pennsylvania to the Potomac River watershed and the lands of the more agrarian and maritime Algonquian peoples, particularly the Lenape of the Delaware valley or the Piscataway or Powhatan of the lower Potomac watershed and Chesapeake Bay. This became known as the Monocacy Trail or even the Great Indian Warpath, with some travelers continuing southward through the "Great Appalachian Valley" (Shenandoah Valley, etc.) to the western Piedmont in North Carolina, or traveling down other watersheds in Virginia toward the Chesapeake Bay, such as those of the Rappahannock, James and York Rivers.


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