Allen, Maryland

About Allen

Set in the southeastern part of Maryland, Allen is a small unincorporated community.

Allen holds the status of a census-designated place — a real, named community that residents call home, governed at the county level. The community covers 0.43 square miles.

📰 Allen News Today

• Ohio State hosting highly touted 2027 RB committed elsewhere on visit Saturday 247Sports · Oct 10
• Dane Allen Porter Obituary Sep 18, 2026 McComas Family Funeral Homes · Sep 18
• SUN: Baltimore official’s son accused of raping two 13-year-old girls WBFF · Sep 22
• Thomas Allen Obituary - Silver Spring, MD Dignity Memorial · Sep 24
• Allen T. McCannon Obituary | Snowden Funeral Home | Rockville, MD Tribute Archive · Sep 26

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📰 Local News

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What Makes Allen Unique

• One of 8 places in the US named Allen — but the Maryland one has a character all its own.
• An unincorporated community — no city hall of its own, which often means lower local taxes and county-managed services.
• Positioned in southeastern Maryland, convenient to the region's corridors and crossings.

Why People Love It Here

• Quiet streets and a slower rhythm — the kind of place people move to on purpose.
• Cost of living typically runs below the big-metro average.
• Well connected: 3+ neighboring communities within 6 miles.

🏞️ Parks & Outdoors in Allen

• Chesapeake Forest · Nature reserve reviews ★
• Douglas Nichols Park reviews ★
• Pirate's Wharf Park reviews ★

Parks mapped by the OpenStreetMap community · "reviews" opens each park's live Google reviews.

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