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Crofton is a census designated place and planned community in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States, located 9.8 mile (16 km) west of the state capital Annapolis, 24 mile (39 km) south of Baltimore, and 24 mile (39 km) east northeast of Washington, D. C. The community was established in 1964 and as of the 2020 census, it had a population of 29,136.

In 1963, after the Crawford Corporation accumulated over of land, it announced that it would build a new community called Crofton. This new town and planned community was founded at the same time as Reston, Virginia (April 17, 1964) and Columbia, Maryland (1967). Crofton would be anchored by a community golf course, which later became the Crofton Country Club. Crofton was officially founded in the fall of 1964. The company considered picking an English name for the new town that "sounds well and implies that this is a pleasant place to live." It ended up picking the name "Crofton", named after a small township in Cumberland County, England. The English town was originally called Croft town, derived from the word "Croft", as the town standing upon the Crofts. Originally a community accused of racial exclusion.

Crofton was in the national news in late June and early July 2002 after a fish called the northern snakehead was discovered in a local pond. The infestation was found in water behind the Crofton post office and the adjacent shopping center, In order to ensure that the fish were eliminated, in September 2002 the main pond and two nearby ponds were dosed heavily with rotenone Six adult snakeheads and more than one thousand juvenile fish were found and destroyed. One comparison case was the mute swan,

The Crofton Special Community Benefit District is policed by the Crofton Police Department, which was founded in 1969. The department operates under the Anne Arundel County Charter, aided by the Anne Arundel County Police Department and Sheriff's Office as directed by authority.

Katcef Archeological Site – archaeological site with native camp sites ranging from the Paleo Indian Clovis period to the late Woodland period. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1984. White's Hall – birthplace of Johns Hopkins, entrepreneur and philanthropist whose greatest legacy is the funding of Johns Hopkins University. Gerrard Hopkins came to America from England, settling in Crofton in 1660. The Hopkins family was in the Crofton area for 270 years and accumulated more than of land. The historic house – built in the late 1700s – still exists near the corner of Riedel Road and Johns Hopkins Road. It is privately owned but empty.