99 Facts About Baltimore

Baltimore is the most populous city in the U S state of Maryland, fourth most populous city in the Mid-Atlantic, and the 30th most populous city in the United States with a population of 585, 708 in 2020.

Baltimore was designated asan independent city by the Constitution of Maryland in 1851, and today is the most populous independent city in the United States.

Baltimore is located about 40 miles north northeast of Washington, D C, making it a principal city in the Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area (CSA), the third-largest CSA in the nation, with a 2021 estimated population of 9, 946, 526.

Battle of Baltimore was a pivotal engagement during the War of 1812, culminating in the failed British bombardment of Fort McHenry, during which Francis Scott Key wrote a poem that would become "The Star-Spangled Banner, " which was eventually designated as the American national anthem in 1931.

Baltimore has more public statues and monuments per capita than any other city in the country.

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Baltimore has 66 National Register Historic Districts and 33 local historic districts.

Baltimore area had been inhabited by Native Americans since at least the 10th millennium BC, when Paleo-Indians first settled in the region.

Baltimore Manor was the name of the estate in County Longford which the Calvert family, Barons Baltimore, owned in Ireland.

Baltimore is an anglicization of the Irish name Baile an Ti Mhoir, meaning "town of the big house".

The original county seat, known today as Old Baltimore, was located on Bush River within the present-day Aberdeen Proving Ground.

Baltimore grew swiftly in the 18th century, its plantations producing grain and tobacco for sugar-producing colonies in the Caribbean.

Since Baltimore was the county seat, a courthouse was built in 1768 to serve both the city and county.

In 1774, Baltimore established the first post office system in what became the United States, and the first water company chartered in the newly independent nation.

Baltimore acquired its moniker "The Monumental City" after an 1827 visit to Baltimore by President John Quincy Adams.

Baltimore pioneered the use of gas lighting in 1816, and its population grew rapidly in the following decades, with concomitant development of culture and infrastructure.

Baltimore had one of the worst riots of the antebellum South in 1835, when bad investments led to the Baltimore bank riot.

Baltimore saw the first casualties of the war on April 19, 1861, when Union Soldiers en route from the President Street Station to Camden Yards clashed with a secessionist mob in the Pratt Street riot.

On February 7, 1904, the Great Baltimore Fire destroyed over 1, 500 buildings in 30 hours, leaving more than 70 blocks of the downtown area burned to the ground.

Baltimore proposed to recognize majority white residential blocks and majority black residential blocks and to prevent people from moving into housing on such blocks where they would be a minority.

The Baltimore Council passed the ordinance, and it became law on December 20, 1910, with Democratic Mayor J Barry Mahool's signature.

Baltimore has had a high homicide rate for several decades, peaking in 1993, and again in 2015.

Baltimore is in north-central Maryland on the Patapsco River close to where it empties into the Chesapeake Bay.

Baltimore is almost surrounded by Baltimore County, but is politically independent of it.

The Baltimore Basilica is a neoclassical design by Benjamin Latrobe, and one of the oldest Catholic cathedrals in the United States.

Streets of Baltimore are organized in a grid and spoke pattern, lined with tens of thousands of brick and formstone-faced rowhouses.

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Formstone facings, once a common feature on Baltimore rowhouses, were an addition patented in 1937 by Albert Knight.

Baltimore's newly rehabilitated Everyman Theatre was honored by the Baltimore Heritage at the 2013 Preservation Awards Celebration in 2013.

Baltimore is officially divided into nine geographical regions: North, Northeast, East, Southeast, South, Southwest, West, Northwest, and Central, with each district patrolled by a respective Baltimore Police Department.

Interstate 83 and Charles Street down to Hanover Street and Ritchie Highway serve as the east–west dividing line and Eastern Avenue to Route 40 as the north–south dividing line; however, Baltimore Street is north–south dividing line for the U S Postal Service.

Central Baltimore, originally called the Middle District, stretches north of the Inner Harbor up to the edge of Druid Hill Park.

Downtown Baltimore has mainly served as a commercial district with limited residential opportunities; however, between 2000 and 2010, the downtown population grew 130 percent as old commercial properties have been replaced by residential property.

Southeast Baltimore, located below Fayette Street, bordering the Inner Harbor and the Northwest Branch of the Patapsco River to the west, the city line of 1919 on its eastern boundaries and the Patapsco River to the south, is a mixed industrial and residential area.

Originally a predominantly German neighborhood, by the last half of the 19th century, Old West Baltimore was home to a substantial section of the city's black population.

Notable neighborhoods in Southwest Baltimore include: Pigtown, Carrollton Ridge, Ridgely's Delight, Leakin Park, Violetville, Lakeland, and Morrell Park.

Also through this segment of Baltimore ran the beginnings of the historic National Road, which was constructed beginning in 1806 along Old Frederick Road and continuing into the county on Frederick Road into Ellicott City, Maryland.

City of Baltimore is bordered by the following communities, all unincorporated census-designated places.

Baltimore has a humid subtropical climate in the Koppen climate classification, with long, hot summers, cool winters, and a summer peak to annual precipitation.

The year between 2018 and 2019 had the largest year-to-year population loss, and in 2020 Baltimore lost more population than any other major city in the United States.

Baltimore has a large Caribbean American population, with the largest groups being Jamaicans and Trinidadians.

Housing in Baltimore is relatively inexpensive for large, coastal cities of its size.

Homeless population in Baltimore is steadily increasing; it exceeded 4, 000 people in 2011.

Crime in Baltimore, generally concentrated in areas high in poverty, has been extreme for many years.

The worst years for crime in Baltimore overall were from 1993 to 1996; with 96, 243 crimes reported in 1995.

In 2011, Baltimore police reported 196 homicides, the lowest number in the city since 197 homicides in 1978 and far lower than the peak homicide count of 353 slayings in 1993.

Crime in Baltimore reached another peak in 2015 when the year's tally of 344 homicides was second only to the record 353 in 1993, when Baltimore had about 100, 000 more residents.

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Around the turn of the 20th century, Baltimore was the leading US manufacturer of rye whiskey and straw hats.

Downtown Baltimore is the primary economic asset within Baltimore City and the region with 29.

Nonprofits based in Baltimore include Lutheran Services in America and Catholic Relief Services.

Almost a quarter of the jobs in the Baltimore region were in science, technology, engineering and math as of mid 2013, in part attributed to the city's extensive undergraduate and graduate schools; maintenance and repair experts were included in this count.

Baltimore is ranked 9th for total dollar value of cargo and 13th for cargo tonnage for all U S ports.

The Port of Baltimore generates $3 billion in annual wages and salary, as well as supporting 14, 630 direct jobs and 108, 000 jobs connected to port work.

Baltimore is the home of the National Aquarium, one of the world's largest.

Baltimore has a significant German American population, and was the second largest port of immigration to the United States, behind Ellis Island in New York and New Jersey.

Baltimore has quite a history when it comes to making beer, an art that thrived in Baltimore from the 1800s to the 1950s with over 100 old breweries in the city's past.

Baltimore is known for its Maryland blue crabs, crab cake, Old Bay Seasoning, pit beef, and the "chicken box".

Baltimore is the last place in America where one can still find arabbers, vendors who sell fresh fruits and vegetables from a horse-drawn cart that goes up and down neighborhood streets.

Baltimore has three state-designated arts and entertainment districts.

Baltimore Symphony Orchestra is an internationally renowned orchestra, founded in 1916 as a publicly funded municipal organization.

The Lyric Opera House is the home of Lyric Opera Baltimore, which operates there as part of the Patricia and Arthur Modell Performing Arts Center.

The Baltimore Consort has been a leading early music ensemble for over twenty-five years.

Baltimore is home to the Pride of Baltimore Chorus, a three-time international silver medalist women's chorus, affiliated with Sweet Adelines International.

Baltimore is the home of non-profit chamber music organization Vivre Musicale.

In 1981, Baltimore hosted the first International Theater Festival, the first such festival in the country.

Baltimore has a long and storied baseball history, including its distinction as the birthplace of Babe Ruth in 1895.

The original 19th century Baltimore Orioles were one of the most successful early franchises, featuring numerous hall of famers during its years from 1882 to 1899.

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Team currently known as the Baltimore Orioles has represented Major League Baseball locally since 1954 when the St Louis Browns moved to the city of Baltimore.

The first major league to base a team in Baltimore was the All-America Football Conference, which had a team named the Baltimore Colts.

Baltimore hosted a Canadian Football League franchise, the Baltimore Stallions for the 1994 and 1995 seasons.

Baltimore Blast are a professional arena soccer team that play in the Major Arena Soccer League at the SECU Arena on the campus of Towson University.

FC Baltimore 1729 is a semi-professional soccer club playing for NPSL league, with the goal of bringing a community-oriented competitive soccer experience to the city of Baltimore.

Baltimore Blues are a semi-professional rugby league club which began competition in the USA Rugby League in 2012.

The marathon begins at the Camden Yards sports complex and travels through many diverse neighborhoods of Baltimore, including the scenic Inner Harbor waterfront area, historic Federal Hill, Fells Point, and Canton, Baltimore.

Baltimore Brigade were an Arena Football League team based in Baltimore that from 2017 to 2019 played at Royal Farms Arena.

Baltimore is an independent city, and not part of any county.

Baltimore has been a Democratic stronghold for over 150 years, with Democrats dominating every level of government.

Baltimore was elected in 2020 and took office on December 8, 2020.

Baltimore's was convicted on a single misdemeanor charge of embezzlement on December 1, 2009.

Law enforcement on the fleet of transit buses and transit rail systems serving Baltimore is the responsibility of the Maryland Transit Administration Police, which is part of the Maryland Transit Administration of the state Department of Transportation.

City of Baltimore is protected by the over 1, 800 professional firefighters of the Baltimore City Fire Department, which was founded in December 1858 and began operating the following year.

Since the legislative redistricting in 2002, Baltimore has had six legislative districts located entirely within its boundaries, giving the city six seats in the 47-member Maryland Senate and 18 in the 141-member Maryland House of Delegates.

Baltimore is one of three people in the last four decades to have represented the 3rd District before being elected to the United States Senate.

Baltimore is the home of numerous places of higher learning, both public and private.

City of Baltimore has a higher-than-average percentage of households without a car.

The first limited-access highway serving Baltimore was the Baltimore–Washington Parkway, which opened in stages between 1950 and 1954.

Maintenance of it is split: the half closest to Baltimore is maintained by the state of Maryland, and the half closest to Washington by the National Park Service.

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Interstate highways serving Baltimore are I-70, I-83, I-95, I-395, I-695 (the Baltimore Beltway), I-795 (the Northwest Expressway), I-895 (the Harbor Tunnel Thruway), and I-97.

Public transit in Baltimore is mostly provided by the Maryland Transit Administration and Charm City Circulator.

Baltimore is a top destination for Amtrak along the Northeast Corridor.

Baltimore is served by two airports, both operated by the Maryland Aviation Administration, which is part of the Maryland Department of Transportation.

Baltimore is served by Martin State Airport, a general aviation facility, to the northeast in Baltimore County.

Baltimore has a comprehensive system of bicycle routes in the city.

Alongside bike lanes, Baltimore has built bike boulevards, starting with Guilford Avenue in 2012.

Baltimore currently has three major trail systems within the city.

The Port of Baltimore is one of two seaports on the U S East Coast with a 50-foot dredge to accommodate the largest shipping vessels.

The Waterfront Partnership of Baltimore took steps to remediate the waterways, in hopes that the harbor would be fishable and swimmable .

Baltimore has two water wheel trash interceptors for removing garbage in area waterways.

The Baltimore Sun was sold by its Baltimore owners in 1986 to the Times Mirror Company, which was bought by the Tribune Company in 2000.

Baltimore is served by low-power station WMJF-CD 39, which transmits from the campus of Towson University.

Baltimore has ten sister cities, as designated by Sister Cities International:.