Guilford

Guilford is an unincorporated community located in Howard County in the state of Maryland. The location is named after the Guilford Mill. Guilford is near Kings Contrivance, one of the nine "villages" of Columbia.

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Type: Hamlet
Description: unincorporated community in Howard County, Maryland, United States
Also known as: “Guilford Factory”, “Guilford, Maryland”, and “Guilford, MD”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lake Elkhorn and Savage Mill Historic District.

Lake Elkhorn

Lake

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Lake Elkhorn is a 37-acre reservoir located in the Owen Brown area of Columbia, Maryland. It is Columbia's third and largest lake. Its main features are a small dam and a park with a picnic pavilion and a two-mile walking path around the lake.

Savage Mill Historic District

Park

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The Savage Mill Historic District is a national historic district located at Savage, Howard County, Maryland. The district comprises the industrial complex of Savage Mill and the village of workers' housing to the north of the complex. Savage Mill Historic District is situated 2½ miles south of Guilford.

Hammond High School

School

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Hammond High School, established in 1977, is a public high school located in Columbia, Maryland, United States. It is part of the Howard County Public School System. Hammond High School is situated 1½ miles west of Guilford.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Owen Brown and Kings Contrivance.

Owen Brown

Suburb

Owen Brown is one of the ten villages in Columbia, Maryland, United States, established in 1972. Neighborhoods in the village include Dasher Green, Elkhorn and Hopewell. Owen Brown lies south and east of the town center. The village contains the 37-acre park.

Kings Contrivance

Suburb

Kings Contrivance is a village in the planned community of Columbia, Maryland, United States and is home to approximately 11,000 residents. It is Columbia's southernmost village, and was the eighth of Columbia's ten villages to be developed. Kings Contrivance is situated 1½ miles west of Guilford.

Savage

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Savage is an unincorporated community and census-designated place located in Howard County, Maryland, United States, approximately 18 miles south of Baltimore and 21 miles north of Washington, D.C. It is situated close to the city of Laurel and to the planned community of Columbia.

Guilford

Categories: unincorporated community and locality
Location: Howard, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

39.17014° or 39° 10′ 13″ north

Longitude

-76.83093° or 76° 49′ 51″ west

Elevation

390 feet (119 metres)

Open location code

87F555C9+3J

OpenStreetMap ID

node 157641855

OpenStreetMap feature

place=hamlet

GeoNames ID

4357043

Wikidata ID

Q5615901

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Chinese to Urdu—“Guilford” goes by many names.

Chinese: “吉爾福德 (馬里蘭州)”
Chinese: “吉爾福德”
French: “Guilford”
Irish: “Guilford”
Urdu: “گیلفورڈ، میری لینڈ”

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