Sykesville

Sykesville is a small town in Howard and Carroll counties, Maryland, United States. The town lies 20 miles west of and 40 miles north of Washington D.C. As of the 2020 census, Sykesville had a population of 4,316.
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  • Type: Village with 4,460 residents
  • Description: town in Carroll County, Maryland, United States
  • Also known as: “Sykes”, “Sykes Mill”, “Sykesville, Maryland”, and “Sykesville, MD”
  • Postal code: 21784

Places of Interest

Highlights include Springfield Presbyterian Church and Springfield State Hospital Center.

Church
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is a historic Presbyterian church located at Sykesville, , , . The church was built in 1836 and is a 3-story structure constructed of uncoursed rubble stone covered in stucco.

Hospital
Springfield Hospital Center is a regional psychiatric hospital located in Sykesville, , United States. First opening its doors in 1896. William Patterson, a founder of the B&O railroad, purchased the 4,000 acre farm "Springfield" in 1797 as a summer home.

School
Carroll County Public Schools is a school district based in . CCPS is the ninth largest county in the state of Maryland. Just over 24,000 students were enrolled in the county's public schools for the 2022-2023 academic year.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Gaither and Fairhaven.

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community in , , United States. It is located along Road, just north of the South Branch of the and the Old Main Line railroad line of CSX Transportation.

Hamlet
Photo: Ken Gallager, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is an unincorporated community retirement community in , , United States.

Town
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is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in , United States. The population was 30,531 at the 2010 census. is situated 3 miles north of Sykesville.

Sykesville

Latitude
39.366° or 39° 21′ 58″ north
Longitude
-76.9689° or 76° 58′ 8″ west
Population
4,460
Elevation
545 feet (166 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US ZJF
Open location code
87F5928J+9F
Open­Street­Map ID
node 158458361
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­village
Geo­Names ID
4370854
Wiki­data ID
Q753667
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Sykesville” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “سكايسفيل”
  • Basque: “Sykesville”
  • Catalan: “Sykesville”
  • Cebuano: “Sykesville”
  • Chechen: “Сайксвилл (Мэриленд)”
  • Chechen: “Сайксвилл”
  • Chinese: “Sykesville”
  • Chinese: “賽克斯維爾 (馬里蘭州)”
  • Chinese: “賽克斯維爾”
  • Danish: “Sykesville”
  • Dutch: “Sykesville”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “سكايسفيل”
  • French: “Sykesville”
  • German: “Sykesville”
  • Gilaki: “سایکس‌ویل (مريلند)”
  • Gilaki: “سایکس‌ویل”
  • Hebrew: “סייקסוויל”
  • Hungarian: “Sykesville”
  • Italian: “Sykesville”
  • Japanese: “サイクスヴィル”
  • Kazakh: “Saýksvïll”
  • Kazakh: “Сайксвилл”
  • Kazakh: “سايكسۆىيلل”
  • Kirghiz: “Сайксвилл”
  • Ladin: “Sykesville”
  • Mazanderani: “اسیکسویل (مریلند)”
  • Mazanderani: “اسیکسویل”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Sykesville”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Sykesville”
  • Norwegian: “Sykesville”
  • Persian: “اسیکسویل، مریلند”
  • Persian: “اسیکسویل”
  • Polish: “Sykesville”
  • Portuguese: “Sykesville”
  • Serbian: “Сајксвил”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sykesville, Maryland”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Sykesville”
  • Slovenian: “Sykesville”
  • South Azerbaijani: “سیکزویل، مریلند”
  • Spanish: “Sykesville (Maryland)”
  • Spanish: “Sykesville”
  • Swedish: “Sykesville”
  • Tatar: “Сайксвилл (Мэриленд)”
  • Tatar: “Сайксвилл”
  • Ukrainian: “Сайксвілл”
  • Urdu: “سائکسویل، میری لینڈ”
  • Uzbek: “Sykesville”
  • Uzbek: “Сйкесвилле”
  • Volapük: “Sykesville”
  • Welsh: “Sykesville, Maryland”
  • Welsh: “Sykesville”

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