Joppatowne, Maryland
| Joppatowne, Maryland | |
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 Location of Joppatowne, Maryland |
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| Coordinates: 39°24′54″N 76°21′22″W / 39.41500°N 76.35611°WCoordinates: 39°24′54″N 76°21′22″W / 39.41500°N 76.35611°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Maryland |
| County | Harford |
| Area | |
| • Total | 7.4 sq mi (19.1 km2) |
| • Land | 6.9 sq mi (17.8 km2) |
| • Water | 0.5 sq mi (1.3 km2) |
| Elevation | 243 ft (74 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 12,616 |
| • Density | 1,656.7/sq mi (639.7/km2) |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP code | 21085 |
| Area code(s) | 410 |
| FIPS code | 24-42875 |
| GNIS feature ID | 0588545 |
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Old Joppa Site
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| Nearest city | Joppatowne, Maryland |
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| Area | 17 acres (6.9 ha) |
| Built | 1712 |
| NRHP Reference # | 79001136 |
| Added to NRHP | August 24, 1979 |
Joppatowne is a census-designated place in southwestern Harford County, Maryland, United States. Serving as a "bedroom community" for nearby Baltimore, it was established in 1961 as a Planned Unit Development (PUD). The population was 12,616 at the 2010 census.
Joppatowne is only a small part of what is currently described as the "Joppa" area of Harford County. Joppa is an area technically defined by the US postal ZIP Code 21085, and a designated planning region for the county. Joppa ZIP Code 21085 extends some 12 miles (19 km) above Joppatowne, nearly to Bel Air at its northernmost tip.
The namesake of both Joppatowne and Joppa is the original town of "Joppa", which was a major seaport in American colonial times, and stood within the boundaries of present-day Joppatowne.
In colonial America there were three towns in the area of present-day Joppatowne, each established and abandoned in succession: Gunpowder Town, Foster's Neck, and Joppa. The first two were short-lived, but Joppa proved quite successful for some 50 years.
Gunpowder Town, or simply Gunpowder, was a failed English settlement that pre-dated colonial Joppa, and was located close to it. This first attempt to establish an English settlement on the Gunpowder River was apparently abandoned because it proved to be a poor location choice. Though documents and records exist for the settlement, including official papers in the archives of the United Kingdom, nobody knows exactly where it was located. It was somewhere northwest of present-day Joppatowne, situated between the confluence of the Big Gunpowder and Little Gunpowder, at a place known as "Sim’s Point". Its location cannot be accurately pinpointed because at that time mouths of the Big and Little Gunpowder were about a mile further inland (above present-day U.S. Route 40), and no trace of the town is known to have ever been found.
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