Howard County is located in the U.S. state of Maryland. As of the 2020 census, the population is 334,529. Since there are no incorporated municipalities, there is no incorporated county seat either. T
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Columbia Town Center, landscape
Merriweather Post Pavilion in September 2022
Savage Mill Rear Dec 08 cropped
Ellicott City is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in and the county seat of Howard County, Maryland, United States. Part of the Baltimore metropolitan area, its population was 7
Howard County, Maryland
…there are no incorporated municipalities, there is no incorporated county seat either. Therefore, its county seat is the unincorporated community of Ellicott City. Howard County is part of the Baltimore metropolitan area. The county is home to Columbia, a planned community between Baltimore and Washington, D.C…
Main Street in Historic Ellicott City
Thomas Isaac log cabin. Named after a 19th-century owner, the cabin was believed to have been built circa 1780 by an early Ellicott's Mills settler.
B&O Railroad Bridge over Main Street.
Governor of Maryland Larry Hogan tours Ellicott City, viewing damage left by the 2016 floods, accompanied by county executive Allan Kittleman.