Pylesville is an

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and

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(CDP) in

Harford County Harford County is located in the U.S. state of Maryland. As of the 2020 census, the population was 260,924. Its county seat is Bel Air. Harford County is included in the Baltimore-Columbia-Towson, MD Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is al ...

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, United States. The population was 693 at the 2010 census. It is part of the

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.The town was named after Nathan Pyle (1779-1804). Until 1958, this community was served by the

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at milepost 40.3.

Geography

Pylesville is in northern Harford County and straddles Broad Creek, an east-flowing tributary of the

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runs through the town, leading northeast to the

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border near

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and southwest to

Jarrettsville Jarrettsville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Harford County, Maryland, United States. The population was 2,888 at the 2020 census. History The town was named for the Jarrett family, who farmed the area during t ...

Maryland Route 543 Maryland Route 543 (MD 543) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. The state highway runs from U.S. Route 40 (US 40) in Riverside north to MD 165 in Pylesville. MD 543 is a north–south highway through central Harford County ...

leaves MD 165 just south of the town center, leading south to

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. Bel Air, the Harford County seat, is to the south via MD 543 and

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Business. According to the

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, the Pylesville CDP has a total area of , of which , or 0.14%, are water. The CDP extends west from the original settlement of Pylesville as far as

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(St. Clair Bridge Road).

Demographics

Cope, Gilbert, ''A Record of the Cope Family as Established in America by Gilbert Cope'' King and Baird Printers Philadelphia 1881 page 70.

Education

The Harford County Public School System serves Pylesville. Students in the area attend the Tri-school community of North Harford Elementary, High, and Middle schools, all located in the western part of the CDP, along with students form

, Forest Hill, Bel Air,

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, Whiteford,

Street A street is a public thoroughfare in a built environment. It is a public parcel of land adjoining buildings in an urban context, on which people may freely assemble, interact, and move about. A street can be as simple as a level patch of dirt, ...

/Pylesville,

Highland Highlands or uplands are areas of high elevation such as a mountainous region, elevated mountainous plateau or high hills. Generally speaking, upland (or uplands) refers to ranges of hills, typically from up to while highland (or highlands) is ...

, and Norrisville.

Notable people

Thomas Wagoner Thomas H. Wagoner (born September 19, 1942) is an American politician and businessman who served in the Alaska Senate from 2003 until 2013. Biography Wagoner was born in 1942 in Pylesville, Maryland. He graduated with a BA in technical design f ...

, politician in Alaska

References

Census-designated places in Harford County, Maryland Census-designated places in Maryland {{HarfordCountyMD-geo-stub