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Somerset County
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county in Maryland, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Maryland
- Founded
- August 22, 1666
- Named after
- Mary, Lady Somerset
- Seat
- Princess Anne
- Largest town
- Princess Anne
- Total
- 610.35 sq mi (1,580.8 km )
- Land
- 319.75 sq mi (828.1 km )
- Water
- 290.60 sq mi (752.7 km )
- Estimate 2025
- 24,973
- Density
- 77.00/sq mi (29.73/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 1st
- Website
- www .somersetmd .us
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Maryland
- Capital
- Princess Anne
- Population
- 24620
- Area
- 1582
- Shares border with
- St. Mary's County
- Official website
- www.co.somerset.md.us
- Image
- Somerset County Courthouse, Princess Anne.jpg
- Households
- 8509
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- category of associated people
- Category:People from Somerset County, Maryland
- Commons category
- Somerset County, Maryland
- topic's main category
- Category:Somerset County, Maryland
- water as percent of area
- 48
- native label
- Somerset County
- inception
- 1666-00-00
- different from
- Somerset County
- per capita income
- 19507
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Encyclopedic overview
Somerset County is the southernmost county in the U.S. state of Maryland. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 24,620, making it the second-least populous county in Maryland. The county seat is Princess Anne. The county is part of the Lower Eastern Shore region of the state.
The county was named for Mary, Lady Somerset, the wife of Sir John Somerset and daughter of Thomas Arundell, 1st Baron Arundell of Wardour (c. 1560–1639). She was also the sister of Anne Calvert, Baroness Baltimore (1615–1649), who later lent her name to Anne Arundel County, which was erected in 1650 as the Province of Maryland's third county.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Somerset County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.