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Fulton is an unincorporated census-designated place in southern Howard County, Maryland, bordered on the south by the Patuxent River and on the east by U.S. Route 29.

The land that became Fulton was first surveyed in 1700 by Thomas Browne, known as the "Patuxent Ranger."

In the mid-1700s Richard Snowden, a Quaker and grandson of one of Maryland's first iron ore producers, purchased tracts up the Patuxent River valley, and the area was known first as Queen Caroline Parish and by 1805 as Hammond Directions and Snowden Second Addition.

German immigrants settled in the area beginning in 1855, and St. Paul's Lutheran Church was founded in 1871 to serve the German farming community.

The community was known as "Water's Store" for Richard Waters' blacksmith operation and post office, which opened on December 29, 1874.

The name was changed to Fulton on March 28, 1882, in honor of Charles C. Fulton, the popular editor of the Baltimore Sun.

Maple Lawn Farms in Fulton began with Heinrich Iager's purchase of 108 acres in 1839; the farm started its free-range turkey operations in 1938 under the "Sho-Nuf" brand and was nationally recognized in 2004 for its registered Holstein dairy herd.

The Maple Lawn mixed-use community, begun in 2004-2005 on part of the old farm, brought a Main Street-style shopping district, offices, and new homes to Fulton.

Fulton's population jumped from 2,049 in the 2010 census to 5,916 in the 2020 census, an increase of about 189 percent driven by the Maple Lawn development.

The 2020 census recorded 1,943 households and 2,020 housing units in Fulton, and 51 percent of its households had children under 18, with a median age of 37.9 years.