Talk:Frederick County, Maryland

List of cities

I changed the cities to cronological order because it is more useful than alphabetical order. Wouldn't you say so? MB 19:16 Sep 23, 2002 (UTC)

ABSOLUTELY NOT! I think that if one looks at listings in any other article (for example, the States in the US, the counties in any of the states) they are listed alphabetically. People can't find things if they are listed in an un-obvious order, and chronologically is not obvious. (BTW, note how to spell "chronological"!) If you want to put the chronology in the "history" section, OK, but please, don't try to tell me that "it is more useful than alphabetical order" to arrange them chronologically. -- BRG 19:09 (UTC) Sept. 30 — Preceding unsigned comment added by 64.26.98.90 (talk) 19:02, 30 September 2002 (UTC)

History Section Needs Expansion

The history section in this article needs much expansion. I will ne working on that in the following weeks...--(Wikipedian1234 (talk) 22:08, 20 April 2008 (UTC))

Some of the usable material is already in Frederick, Maryland. The appropriate thing for that would be to use a main-article pointer for the relevant sections. Tedickey (talk) 22:20, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

You are right, but the section could have a brief discription of history--(Wikipedian1234 (talk) 22:55, 20 April 2008 (UTC))

sure - a synposis is the normal setting for a main-article pointer. There are probably other subtopics unrelated to Frederick-the-city, which likely would be covered in depth "here" Tedickey (talk) 23:04, 20 April 2008 (UTC)

Named-after

Frederick Maryland was named for Frederick, Prince of Wales. Frederick, Lord Baltimore was ALSO name for Frederick the Prince of Wales, the son of George II. He died before his father and thus was never king. George III was Frederick's son and succeeded his grandfather. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 70.248.133.189 (talk) 13:26, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

That (or any other theory of how the county was named) would require a reliable source Tedickey (talk) 14:47, 17 August 2008 (UTC)

County Size

Frederick County isn't the largest county by square mileage in Maryland, Dorchester is. Frederick is a 667 sq. miles per Wikipedia; Dorchester is 987. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 69.2.170.211 (talk) 15:10, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

This source, and this do not agree with your comment. Tedickey (talk) 15:16, 27 September 2009 (UTC)

Wikipedia is inconsistent on this "fact." It cites U.S. Census Bureau statistics. In TOTAL AREA (dry land + water) Dorchester county is largest, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. It's confusing because the red highlighting on the maps only shows the land. But the same source you quoted shows over 1500 Miles of coastline. That's double the entire Atlantic coast of Worcester. So if the water rights extended out as they usually do, it is quite possible to have the water area that the Census Bureau thinks they have. With global warming the water area will continue to increase. Mea (talk) 05:55, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

News

Should we add the recent threat of Frederick County to split from the rest of Maryland? 74.103.74.93 (talk) 21:55, 16 March 2010 (UTC)

I live in Frederick County and this is the first I've heard of any sort of secession. Got a source? —Wrathchild ^(talk) 14:03, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Huh, look at that. www.examiner.com/article/republican-politician-urges-frederick-county-to-secede-from-maryland Words fail me. —Wrathchild ^(talk) 14:06, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

As the link says, it was only one person making the "threat". Not notable Tedickey (talk) 21:23, 17 March 2010 (UTC)

Although if you visit the cemetery in Frederick City you will observe more Confederate than U.S. flags. Wrathchild I tried to replace your hyperlink because it was dead but Wikipedia doesn't like www.examiner.com. And remember, we call it "Fredneck" for a reason. Mea (talk) 06:34, 23 February 2014 (UTC)

Edit request on 18 March 2015

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Template Redr is an alias for the {{This is a redirect}} template, which is used to sort redirects into one or more categories. No protection rcat is needed, and if {{pp-protected}} and/or {{pp-move}} suffice, the This is a redirect template will detect the protection level(s) and include them automatically. (They will also be automatically excluded when and if protection is lifted.) Thank you in advance! – Paine Ellsworth^CLIMAX! 09:54, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

 Done — Martin (MSGJ · talk) 13:36, 18 March 2015 (UTC)

Thank you very much, Martin! – Paine  11:22, 19 March 2015 (UTC)

Environmental Section to be added

Please consider adding an "Environmental" section for this page. It could include the link to Fort Detrick's EPA Superfund site and data about the clean up effort. The city of Frederick and the county have environmental offices that focus on sustainability and policy creation for the surrounding environment. Hood College's Environmental students are currently providing technical assistance with the data collection and real time clean up at local sites in the county, these student projects could produce the data and analysis for the Wiki page.

Usulutan86 (talk) 16:41, 11 December 2015 (UTC)

Central? northern?

The Maryland state government cannot make up their minds about where the counties are. One government map puts Frederick County in the western region. Another puts it into the capital region. Yet another puts Frederick into the midwestern region. Abel (talk) 23:26, 17 April 2017 (UTC)

You've pointed to three different categorization schemes, which doesn't provide any insight. To see relevant differences of opinion, you should focus on reliable sources for the same scheme. TEDickey (talk) 01:34, 18 April 2017 (UTC)

Apparently the government of Maryland is not reliable when it comes to mapping Maryland, and your argument for why Fredrick is more northern than central is that you have no argument. Good talk. Abel (talk) 01:51, 18 April 2017 (UTC)