Linthicum is an evaluation assigned spot (CDP) and unincorporated network in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. The populace was 10,324 at the 2010 census. It is found straightforwardly north of Baltimore–Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI).
Assigned as “Linthicum Heights” and postal district 21090 by the US Postal Service, Linthicum has been generally partitioned into two unmistakable networks each with its own locale affiliation and character. These two networks, split by the Baltimore Beltway in 1957, are Linthicum and North Linthicum (or, on the other hand, Linthicum-Shipley and North Linthicum.) Both people group created because of their areas neighboring the Baltimore and Annapolis Short Line railroad which carried suburbanites to the first truck cultivating network.
As a created network, Linthicum started with the 1908 establishing of the “Linthicum Heights Company”, however a “Linthicum” or “Linthicum’s” station on the 1887 Annapolis and Baltimore Short Line railroad existed at any rate as ahead of schedule as 1889. The people group’s name was from the region’s essential land-possessing family since a 1801 buy by Abner Linthicum.
The Linthicum Heights Historic District was recorded on the National Register of Historic Places in 2006.
Linthicum is situated at 39°12′14″N 76°39′38″W (39.203876, −76.660506) in northern Anne Arundel County. It stretches out from the Patapsco River in the north (the Baltimore County line) to Maryland Route 170 (Aviation Boulevard) in the south, and from Interstate 195 in the west to Maryland Route 648 (Baltimore Annapolis Boulevard) in the east. It is circumscribed by the CDPs of Baltimore Highlands toward the north (in Baltimore County), Brooklyn Park toward the east, and Ferndale toward the southeast, and by the Baltimore–Washington International Airport toward the south.
The BWI Business District West Nursery territory is situated in Linthicum along the West Nursery Road hallway. The business area is home to various organizations, workplaces, and business administrations.
Two significant roadways go through the CDP. The Baltimore Beltway (Interstate 695) runs northwest–southeast through Linthicum and converges with the Baltimore–Washington Parkway (Maryland Route 295), which runs upper east southwest. By the road it is 6 miles (10 km) upper east to downtown Baltimore and 32 miles (51 km) southwest to Washington, D.C.
As indicated by the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has an all out territory of 5.5 square miles (14.3 km2), of which 5.4 square miles (14.1 km2) is land and 0.039 square miles (0.1 km2), or 0.81%, is water.