FY 23 Approved Budget Book

AN OVERVIEW OF HARFORD COUNTY, MARYLAND

COUNTY OVERVIEW

Harford County, Maryland, with its northern border being the Mason-Dixon Line, lies between Pennsylvania to the north and the Chesapeake Bay to the south, with the Susquehanna River to the east, and most of its western border along Little Gunpowder Falls. The northern areas of the County are in the Piedmont Plateau, two to seven hundred feet above sea level. The southern areas are part of the Coastal Plain and range from forty to two hundred feet above sea level. Today the County encompasses 448 square land miles* and 16.5 square water miles*. Harford has three incorporated towns: Aberdeen, Havre de Grace, and Bel Air, which is the County Seat.

*Per the MD Geological Survey 3/3/05

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