What is the difference between Joppa & Joppatowne? (Baltimore, Towson: real estate, chapel)

[Annieproductions]

Hi all thanks for answering my other posts. I am slightly confused. What is the difference between JOPPA & JOPPATOWNE? As far as the united states postal service website is concerned 21085 is for JOPPA MD...it states do not use JOPPATOWNE. I asked around and people tell me JOPPA is part of JOPPATOWNE? I am trying to remember if I saw an exit off of i-95 for JOPPA or JOPPATOWNE...I ask because I was looking at a house in JOPPA and was told "this is Joppa not Joppatowne" ????/

[trickymost]

For all intents and purposes, they're both the same.

It's like the 21093 zip code. 21093 is either Timonium, Lutherville, or Lutherville-Timonium. Some people like to think one is better than the other, but to the post office and most mapping/GPS software it's the same.

[Annieproductions]

thank you, I will have to give a certain real estate agent a butt kicking. I am an agent from NY and we have similiar things where people will say they live in a section of the town, that by the post office doesn't exist. Guess it makes them feel better.

[dangelo]

Residents refer to Joppatowne is the area east of Route 7. YMMV.

[Bawlmore_Hon]

I live in Joppatowne, but I call it joppa for short. I know a woman who lives between Abingdon and Bel Air, MD and she claims the area is called Joppa. So, yes Joppa and Joppatowne are two different areas. Tho if anyone sends me a letter that says Joppa.. there's still my zip code to diff the two areas

[meberman]

Joppatowne started life as a planned community built by the Panitz corporation in the 1960's. Much of Joppatowne is built on land made from dredging tributaries of the Gunpowder river to provide channels for power boats going to and from the Gunpowder Cove Marina in the center of Joppatowne.

Joppatowne starts at U.S. 40 and ends about 3 miles south, where it borders Magnolia and Edgewood Arsenal (part of Aberdeen Proving Ground). The western border is the Little Gunpower river, which is the Baltimore/Harford county line. The Joppa post office is located in Joppatowne, but the Joppa area spans not only Joppatowne, but also areas to the north and east along U.S. 40 and MD route 7.

The Joppa/Joppatowne connection is not quite analagous to the Lutherville/Timonium one. Lutherville and Timonium at one time had separate post offices, which were combined into "Lutherville-Timonium" with one post office and ZIP code sometime in the late 80s/early 90s. Joppatowne is to Joppa as Mays Chapel is to Timonium.

Joppatowne is often misspelled as Joppatown. This is partly due to a historical marker that used to be on U.S. 40, but has since been moved to Joppa Farm Road, the main drag through the community. "Joppa Town" was an early settlement on the same land and the original county seat of Baltimore County (there was no Harford County at the time). The Rumsey Mansion, which still stands in Joppatowne and is (or at least used to be) the home of the Harford County Executive, dates back to that time. Joppa was a natural deep water port, and Joppa Road, which many people associate with Towson, actually takes one all the way from central Baltimore County (Ruxton area) through White Marsh all the way to Joppa, if you follow it diligently enough.

There used to be some pretty large orchards in what is now Joppatowne, but none are left.