City of Hagerstown

Hagerstown (pronounced /herztan/[2]) is a city in northwestern Maryland, United States. It is the county seat of Washington County,[3] and the largest city in a region known as Western Maryland.[1] The population of Hagerstown city proper according to estimates conducted by the United States Census Bureau for a 12-month period ending 1 July 2007 is 39,640,[4] and the total 2000 Urbanized Area population is 120,326 [5](~80,000 in MD). Hagerstown ranks as Marylands sixth largest city,[6] but if the urban area were to likewise incorporate, it would be Marylands second-most populous city. Hagerstown anchors the Hagerstown-Martinsburg, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area, which lies just northwest of the Washington-Baltimore-Northern Virginia, DC-MD-VA-WV Combined Statistical Area in the heart of the Great Appalachian Valley. The population of the metropolitan area in 2000 was 222,771 and the 2008 estimate is 263,753 (U.S. Rank 169). Greater Hagerstown is the fastest growing metropoli...