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Edgemere is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in southeastern Baltimore County, Maryland, occupying the North Point peninsula between the Back River and the Chesapeake Bay.

The community was known as Fitzell until 1899, when it took the name Edgemere.

The 2020 census counted 9,069 residents in Edgemere, up from 8,669 in 2010, after a count of 9,248 in 2000.

Edgemere is one of Maryland's most water-bound communities: of its roughly 20.6 square miles, nearly half — about 47% — is water.

British troops landed at North Point, at the tip of the Edgemere peninsula, on September 12, 1814, before the Battle of North Point in the campaign that culminated in the Battle of Baltimore during the War of 1812.

North Point State Park, a 1,310-acre park on the Chesapeake Bay in Edgemere, preserves the site of Bay Shore Park, a popular amusement park that operated from 1906 to 1947.

The Defenders Trail, used by American soldiers during the War of 1812, passes through North Point State Park, which today offers fishing piers, picnicking, and hiking trails along the bay.

The Edgemere CDP includes the neighboring Sparrows Point area, and Sparrows Point High School — long tied to the Bethlehem Steel mill community — is located within it.

Edgemere Elementary School, at North Point Road and Sparrows Point Road, was the first modern school in the Sparrows Point area built outside Bethlehem Steel's company town.

Hart-Miller Island, now a Maryland state park in the Chesapeake Bay offshore from Edgemere, was originally part of a peninsula that extended from Edgemere.