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58-510: Odenton ( / ˈ oʊ d ən t ə n / OH -dən-tən ) is a census-designated place (CDP) in Anne Arundel County , Maryland , United States, located approximately 10–20 minutes from the state capital, Annapolis . The population was 37,132 at the 2010 census , up from 20,534 at the 2000 census. The town's population growth rate of 80.8% between 2000 and 2010 was the greatest of any town in western Anne Arundel County. Odenton

116-480: A 2007 estimate). Males had a median income of $ 45,965 versus $ 32,659 for females. The per capita income for the CDP was $ 26,124. About 1.6% of families and 2.5% of the population were below the poverty line , including 1.8% of those under age 18 and 5.2% of those age 65 or over. In 2020, Odenton had a population of 41,846, an increase of 12.70% from the 2010 census. In 2019, the median household income for Odenton overall

174-424: A CDP name "be one that is recognized and used in daily communication by the residents of the community" (not "a name developed solely for planning or other purposes") and recommend that a CDP's boundaries be mapped based on the geographic extent associated with inhabitants' regular use of the named place. There is no provision, however, that this name recognition be unanimous for all residents, or that all residents use

232-576: A day. With the business seemingly successful, the WB&;A went into an expansion and investment phase. In 1921 it opened a new Washington, DC terminal on New York Avenue and purchased the Baltimore & Annapolis Short Line . The B&A became known as the " North Shore Line " and the old A&ER was called the " South Shore Line " . To consolidate operations, the B&;A gave up its terminus at

290-461: A population of at least 10,000. For the 1970 Census , the population threshold for "unincorporated places" in urbanized areas was reduced to 5,000. For the 1980 Census , the designation was changed to "census designated places" and the designation was made available for places inside urbanized areas in New England. For the 1990 Census , the population threshold for CDPs in urbanized areas

348-470: A post office was established. A town grew near the junction, houses were built for railroad workers, a Methodist church was dedicated in 1891 and a grade school opened in 1892. Small villages developed around these various railroad lines, but none amounted to more than a cluster of shops and homes around a train station and post office. The 1878 Maryland Directory listed the following towns: Conaway, Odenton, Patuxent, Sappington, and Woodwardville . Odenton

406-466: Is located at the intersection of Maryland routes 170 and 175 and is bordered by Route 32 to the north. The zipcode is 21113. In 1840, the steam-powered Annapolis and Elk Ridge Railroad (A&ER) was built across a sparsely settled farming community that would later become Odenton. At the beginning of the Civil War , Union soldiers guarded this railroad line because it was the only link between

464-670: Is located west of Annapolis, south of Baltimore , and northeast of Washington, D.C. . In recent years, Odenton has become the fastest-growing city in the county with 2010 census numbers reporting 42% growth. This is because of its proximity to Fort George G. Meade , which contains NSA headquarters, U.S. Cyber Command (established 2009), and the Defense Information Systems Agency (moved to Fort Meade in 2011). Odenton's growth can also be attributed to it being centrally located between Annapolis, Baltimore, and Washington, D.C. The development has been fueled by

522-654: The 1890 Census , in which the Census mixed unincorporated places with incorporated places in its products with "town" or "village" as its label. This made it confusing to determine which of the "towns" were or were not incorporated. The 1900 through 1930 Censuses did not report data for unincorporated places. For the 1940 Census , the Census Bureau compiled a separate report of unofficial, unincorporated communities of 500 or more people. The Census Bureau officially defined this category as "unincorporated places" in

580-461: The 1950 Census and used that term through the 1970 Census. For the 1950 Census, these types of places were identified only outside " urbanized areas ". In 1960 , the Census Bureau also identified unincorporated places inside urbanized areas (except in New England , whose political geography is based on the New England town , and is distinctly different from other areas of the U.S.), but with

638-536: The Camden Street Station of the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad and started using the WB&A terminal on Liberty Street (between Lexington and Fayette) in Baltimore. Until 1921, the WB&A and B&A ran on separate, parallel tracks between Linthicum and Baltimore. But on March 16, 1921, a crossover opened between the lines at Linthicum . Operations ceased on the B&O track, and a new terminal

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696-638: The Chesapeake Beach Railway just outside Washington at Chesapeake Junction . From there, it continued to Deanwood on the Washington Railway and Electric Company 's Seat Pleasant Line , running parallel to the Chesapeake Beach Railway tracks and across the Benning Road Bridge into downtown Washington. Once onto their own right-of-way, the WB&A's expresses regularly hit 60 mph, but street running in

754-519: The United States Naval Academy purchased the 800-acre (3.2 km) Hammond Manor Farm in neighboring Gambrills for the construction of a dairy following the 1910 typhoid fever outbreak at the academy. The academy operated the dairy until 1998. Until 2005 it was the home of Dean Foods ' Horizon Organic dairy. The farm is currently the home of Maryland Sunrise Farm. In 1917, at the advent of World War I , Odenton's growth

812-744: The 1920s, when passenger business was good, the line purchased and operated steel two-car articulated (attached body with a common center truck/boogie) coaches on the Baltimore-Annapolis route. This equipment later went to the Milwaukee Electric Line in Wisconsin. Around the time of the purchase of the ASL, the Defense Highway was built, providing an alternative route into Annapolis. As a result, gross receipts for

870-783: The 1950s with the establishment of the National Security Agency on the fort and Friendship International Airport (now the Baltimore-Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport ) a few miles to the north. Odenton still maintains its railroad history through the Dennis F. Sullivan Maintenance Facility, operated by Amtrak , which maintains track, bridges and other structures on the Amtrak/MARC line between Baltimore and Washington. All of this, as well as

928-500: The Anne Arundel County Council. Census-designated place CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counterparts of incorporated places , such as self-governing cities , towns , and villages , for the purposes of gathering and correlating statistical data. CDPs are populated areas that generally include one officially designated but currently unincorporated community, for which

986-643: The B&O to serve Fort Meade until sometime between 1979 and 1981. It too was removed to allow for the construction of the Patuxent Freeway. Only the junction tracks at Annapolis Junction, which are used by an aggregates terminal, and an abandoned spur from the Amtrak mainline to the old Nevamar plant in Odenton remain. The right-of-way of the North Shore Line and some equipment were bought by

1044-534: The B&P crossed the A&;ER, a train station and telegraph office were constructed and named for Oden Bowie, president of the B&P and former governor of Maryland. Train service to the station began on July 2, 1872. The rail junction (today's MARC station) at Odenton Road, already a busy thoroughfare from Annapolis to Frederick , became the site of Odenton's first commercial center. The Watts and Murray general stores served railroad workers and farmers, and in 1871

1102-573: The Bondholders Protective Society, which then formed the Baltimore and Annapolis Railroad Company , which continued to operate rail passenger service between Baltimore and Annapolis until 1950; passenger buses into the early 1970s to Brooklyn in South Baltimore, connecting with the #6 transit line for streetcars and buses of the old Baltimore Transit Company and they then sold it in the 1980s. Freight continued on

1160-849: The CDP has a total area of 14.8 square miles (38.3 km), all of it land. Prior to their relocation to the Kettler Capitals Iceplex in Arlington County, Virginia in 2006, the Washington Capitals ice hockey team practiced at the Piney Orchard Ice Arena. After its renovation in 2017, Piney Orchard Ice Arena now hosts the Maryland Black Bears of the North American Hockey League . Tickets for

1218-464: The CDP is named, plus surrounding inhabited countryside of varying dimensions and, occasionally, other, smaller unincorporated communities as well. CDPs include small rural communities, edge cities , colonias located along the Mexico–United States border , and unincorporated resort and retirement communities and their environs. The boundaries of any CDP may change from decade to decade, and

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1276-573: The CDP was 80.15% White , 12.76% African American , 0.37% Native American , 3.06% Asian , 0.08% Pacific Islander , 0.98% from other races , and 2.61% from two or more races. Hispanic or Latino of any race were 2.77% of the population. As of 2010 the racial makeup of the CDP was 65.28% White, 23.02% African American, 0.4% Native American, 5.48% Asian/Pacific Islander American, 0.1% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander and 4.1% Two or more races . 5.9% were Hispanic or Latino of any race. There were 7,594 households, out of which 37.7% had children under

1334-501: The Census Bureau considers some towns in New England states, New Jersey and New York as well as townships in some other states as MCDs, even though they are incorporated municipalities in those states. In such states, CDPs may be defined within such towns or spanning the boundaries of multiple towns. There are a number of reasons for the CDP designation: Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railroad The Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railway (WB&A)

1392-485: The Census Bureau may de-establish a CDP after a period of study, then re-establish it some decades later. Most unincorporated areas within the United States are not and have not been included in any CDP. The boundaries of a CDP have no legal status and may not always correspond with the local understanding of the area or community with the same name. However, criteria established for the 2010 census require that

1450-673: The Japan-developed SCMaglev system to transport passengers from city to city in 15 minutes. As of 2020, Northeast Maglev was working with the Federal Railroad Administration and Maryland Department of Transportation , the project sponsor, to prepare an Environmental Impact Statement for the proposed railroad. In 2021, BWRR attempted to take control of a 43-acre parcel of land for its planned station in Baltimore's Westport neighborhood through eminent domain . It argued that its purchase of

1508-604: The Main Line. The railroad built a short spur off the line to a railyard there. In September 1917, as the U.S. entered World War I , George Bishop, the WB&A's well-connected president, persuaded the U.S. Army to acquire land owned by the railroad and open a training facility. Camp Meade was established in the area roughly bounded by the B&;O Washington Branch on the west, the Pennsylvania Railroad on

1566-558: The North and the nation's capital. Rail traffic through Baltimore had been disrupted by southern sympathizers, so supplies, mail and soldiers flowed through Annapolis and west Anne Arundel County to Washington . The town of Odenton, nicknamed "The Town a Railroad Built" by Catherine L. O'Malley, was formed in 1868 with the construction of the Baltimore Potomac (B&P) Railroad connecting Baltimore and Washington, D.C. Where

1624-419: The age of 18 living with them, 58.8% were married couples living together, 10.5% had a female householder with no husband present, and 26.9% were non-families. 19.7% of all households were made up of individuals, and 4.2% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.70 and the average family size was 3.13. In the CDP, the population was spread out, with 26.9% under

1682-431: The age of 18, 7.0% from 18 to 24, 38.7% from 25 to 44, 20.5% from 45 to 64, and 6.8% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 33 years. For every 100 females, there were 94.9 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 91.7 males. The median income for a household in the CDP was $ 65,563, and the median income for a family was $ 69,098 (these figures had risen to $ 85,137 and $ 96,641 respectively as of

1740-484: The boundaries for CDPs. The PSAP was to be offered to county and municipal planning agencies during 2008. The boundaries of such places may be defined in cooperation with local or tribal officials, but are not fixed, and do not affect the status of local government or incorporation; the territories thus defined are strictly statistical entities. CDP boundaries may change from one census to the next to reflect changes in settlement patterns. Further, as statistical entities,

1798-419: The boundaries of the CDP may not correspond with local understanding of the area with the same name. Recognized communities may be divided into two or more CDPs while on the other hand, two or more communities may be combined into one CDP. A CDP may also cover the unincorporated part of a named community, where the rest lies within an incorporated place. By defining an area as a CDP, that locality then appears in

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1856-588: The community for which the CDP is named for services provided therein. There is no mandatory correlation between CDP names or boundaries and those established for other human purposes, such as post office names or zones, political precincts, or school districts. The Census Bureau states that census-designated places are not considered incorporated places and that it includes only census-designated places in its city population list for Hawaii because that state has no incorporated cities. In addition, census city lists from 2007 included Arlington County, Virginia 's CDP in

1914-501: The construction of the massive Piney Orchard development, progress in the ongoing development of Odenton Town Center , and construction of the NSA East Campus Integration Program scheduled for completion in 2028. The town is named after former Governor of Maryland Oden Bowie . It is bordered by Gambrills to the east, Severn to the north, Fort Meade to the west, and Crofton to the south. It

1972-502: The east, and the South Shore Line of the WB&A to the south. The installation was supposed to be a temporary facility, used only for the duration of the war, but it remains in use today as Fort Meade, site of the headquarters of the National Security Agency . The WB&A saw record traffic during this time as a result of freight and passenger service to the camp. In 1918, the railroad was running as many as 84 special trains

2030-575: The entire railroad had been liquidated, including the right-of-way; the Annapolis substation; the train terminals in Baltimore and Washington; the Naval Academy Junction shops and properties in South Baltimore. At some point between 1951 and 1956, the tracks in D.C. were removed. In 1950, when the B&A rail passenger service ended, the old WB&A terminal at Howard and Lombard Streets in Baltimore, which had been sold in 1935 to

2088-765: The following public schools in the Anne Arundel County Public Schools district: Odenton is represented in the Maryland General Assembly by legislators in Districts 21, 32 and 33. District 21 is primarily in Prince George's County . District 32 also includes Severn, Linthicum, Heights, and Glen Burnie. District 33 also includes Severna Park , Crownsville and Crofton . Odenton is represented in District 4 of

2146-427: The games are available online and at the box office. The team sells merchandise such as jerseys, hats, cloths and other items. As of the census of 2000, there were 20,534 people, 7,594 households, and 5,551 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 1,653.3 inhabitants per square mile (638.3/km). There were 7,900 housing units at an average density of 636.1 per square mile (245.6/km). The racial makeup of

2204-443: The late 19th century on Odenton Road (behind present day 1380 and 1382 Odenton Road) was a successful operation into the early 1900s. Shortly after 1900, another company built an electric interurban railroad parallel to the B&P and also electrified the former A&ER. Train service on these lines began in 1908. The Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railroad provided public transportation to central Maryland. In 1914,

2262-512: The line with diesel until it was adapted for light rail in 1992, and then freight ran on the light rail line at night for several years after that. On June 5, 1908, two of WB&A's single-car trains collided at Camp Parole, Maryland. Nine people died as a result of the crash, including Railroad Policeman J.G. Schriner. The trains were ferrying riders to and from the United States Naval Academy for graduation ceremonies at

2320-556: The list with the incorporated places, but since 2010, only the Urban Honolulu CDP, Hawaii, representing the historic core of Honolulu, Hawaii , is shown in the city and town estimates. The Census Bureau reported data for some unincorporated places as early as the first census in 1790 (for example, Louisville, Kentucky , which was not legally incorporated in Kentucky until 1828), though usage continued to develop through

2378-487: The owner of the "WB&A restaurant" in the terminal, became the bus terminal for the B&A passenger bus system. by then the tracks had been torn out and replaced with a parking garage. It was knocked down in 1964 for a Holiday Inn Motel. While the vast majority of the South Shore division was abandoned and sold for scrap in the 1930s, the portion between Annapolis Junction and Odenton was purchased and operated by

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2436-702: The ownership of WRECo and then the old Capital Transit Company . In 1936, the Pennsylvania RR took over the spur to Bowie Race track and the short section of the WB&A from the Bowie Race Track junction south to the bridge over Horsepen Run. Most of the rest of the main line from the Patapsco River near Pumphrey Station to Washignton, DC was sold to the Maryland State Roads Commission in 1941. By March 1946,

2494-603: The railroad began to decline. The railroad only survived because of a law exempting it from taxes. In January 1931, during the Great Depression , the extension of the law failed to pass by one vote and the line went into receivership. The line remained in operation for four more years and the Evans Products Company of Detroit negotiated to buy the railroad in June 1935, but those negotiations failed and

2552-515: The railroad officially ceased operations on August 20, 1935. The railroad was sold at auction in 1935 and the Main Line and South Shore Divisions was bought by WB&A Realty. They sold the rolling stock to scrap dealers. Over time, the rails were hauled away, though by the beginning of World War II some remained and at least one post-War home in the area used old rails in lieu of I-beams. The right of way within Washington, D.C., remained under

2610-697: The railroad was sold at auction, undermined by the Great Depression and the rise of the automobile . Successor companies continued to offer passenger service on the line between Annapolis and Baltimore until the late 1950s, when the trains were replaced by a bus service that operated until 1968. Today, parts of the right-of-way are used for Baltimore Light RailLink , a light rail service from Cromwell Station / north Glen Burnie to downtown Baltimore and further north through city to Hunt Valley in Baltimore County . Other parts are now rail trails or roads through Anne Arundel County . The WB&A

2668-457: The same category of census data as incorporated places. This distinguishes CDPs from other census classifications, such as minor civil divisions (MCDs), which are in a separate category. The population and demographics of the CDP are included in the data of county subdivisions containing the CDP. Generally, a CDP shall not be defined within the boundaries of what the Census Bureau regards to be an incorporated city, village or borough. However,

2726-552: The suburban expansion of Baltimore and Washington, D.C., have transformed Odenton from a farmland region to a business, residential and industrial center in Anne Arundel County. Odenton is located at 39°04′17″N 76°41′59″W  /  39.071276°N 76.699756°W  / 39.071276; -76.699756 (39.071276, −76.699756). According to the United States Census Bureau ,

2784-573: The terminal cities slowed their overall time. A typical B&O express made the trip in 50 minutes, but the best the WB&A could do was an hour and 20 minutes. Offsetting these handicaps were its cleanliness, lower fares, half-hourly express service, and better-located downtown terminals. Always looking for new sources of business, the railroad, in 1914, convinced the Southern Maryland Agricultural Fair Association to establish Bowie Race Track along

2842-761: The time of the accident. Stations on the South Shore Line (Annapolis and Elk Ridge Railroad) Stations on the North Shore Line (Baltimore and Annapolis Railroad) In the 2010s, an effort to build a maglev railroad between Washington and Baltimore led the Baltimore-Washington Rapid Rail company (BWRR) to acquire a passenger railroad franchise previously held by the WB&A. The Maryland Public Service Commission (PSC) approved BWRR's application in 2015. BWRR, with its sister company Northeast Maglev , proposes to use

2900-632: Was $ 99,601, but the median household income for families was $ 132,787., which suggests that Odenton has a large percentage of childless singles relative to other nearby suburban areas. In 2019, the racial composition of Odenton was 62.49% white, 22.73% Black or African American, 6.53% Asian, 6.50% Two or more races, 1.65% other race, 0.08% Native American, and 0.02% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander. 85.11% of Odenton residents only speak English, 6.2% speak Spanish, 4% speak an Asian or Pacific Islander language, 3.4% speak other Indo-European languages, and 1.5% speak other languages. Children in Odenton are served by

2958-627: Was an American railroad that operated from 1899 until 1935 in central Maryland and Washington, D.C. It was built by a group of Cleveland, Ohio , electric railway entrepreneurs to serve as a high-speed showpiece line using the most advanced technology of the time. The WB&A absorbed two older railroads, the Annapolis and Elk Ridge Railroad and the Baltimore & Annapolis Short Line , and added its own electric streetcar line between Baltimore and Washington. It served Washington, Baltimore, and Annapolis, Maryland , for 27 years. In 1935,

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3016-410: Was built at the southwest corner of South Howard and West Lombard Streets across from what is now 1st Mariner Arena . The new WB&A then consisted of 81 miles of track and was the only practical way to get from Washington, D.C. to Annapolis. Initially, passengers between Baltimore-Washington and Annapolis rode the "classic" 1900-1910 arch-window all-wood-body truss-rod-frame interurban coach. In

3074-429: Was closed in 1907, electrified, and reopened in 1908. It ran from the B&O main line at Annapolis Junction , crossed the WB&A main line just east of Odenton , and headed east via Millersville and Crownsville to Annapolis. At the same time, it laid an almost straight double-track route parallel to the Baltimore and Ohio and Pennsylvania railroads, but slightly to the east in less populated territory. This

3132-490: Was originally incorporated in 1899 as The Potomac and Severn Electric Railway . On April 10, 1900, it changed its name to the Washington and Annapolis Electric Railway and finally, on April 8, 1902, to the Washington, Baltimore and Annapolis Electric Railway . In 1903, the WB&A purchased the Annapolis, Washington & Baltimore Railroad (AW&B) — formerly the Annapolis & Elkridge Railroad — which

3190-481: Was reduced to 2,500. From 1950 through 1990, the Census Bureau specified other population requirements for unincorporated places or CDPs in Alaska , Puerto Rico , island areas, and Native American reservations . Minimum population criteria for CDPs were dropped with the 2000 Census . The Census Bureau's Participant Statistical Areas Program (PSAP) allows designated participants to review and suggest modifications to

3248-505: Was spurred by the establishment of Fort Meade . The United States Department of War acquired 19,000 acres (77 km) of land west of Odenton to develop a training camp, displacing numerous farmers, merchants and public and private enterprises, many of whom moved east to nearby Odenton. The Epiphany Chapel and Church House at Fort Meade was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2001. This growth accelerated in

3306-608: Was the WB&A mainline. On February 7, 1908, service began from Liberty Street in Baltimore to its Washington terminal at 15th and H Streets NE . After 1910, the line reached the heart of downtown DC on 15th Street near the Treasury . In 1911, the WB&A electrified service on the mainline. The line built by the WB&A, later called the Main Line , ran from Baltimore to Washington through Bowie , Glenn Dale Hospital , and Glenarden to Fairmont Heights , where it met with

3364-628: Was the largest, with a population of 100, a church, a school and two stores. In nearby Woodwardville, where the B&P crossed the Little Patuxent River , A. G. Woodward was the postmaster and operated a general merchandise store in a village of 50 people. Two churches and a school served that community. Land was worth from $ 5 and $ 30 per acre, producing wheat, corn and tobacco. Canneries, primarily for tomatoes, were built in many locations in Anne Arundel County, including Odenton and Woodwardville. The George M. Murray Canning House, built in

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