Carney is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Baltimore County, Maryland, United States.

[4] According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 7.0 square miles (18 km2), all land.

In 1880, Thomas Carney immigrated to the United States from Ireland and settled in Texas, Maryland.

Soon after his arrival, he married the former Mary McDermot and bought forty and one-half acres on the southeast side of the Baltimore and Harford Turnpike.

Thirty-five years later, the Carney house was moved to its present location at the corner of Joppa and Avondale roads and is now a real estate office.

With the passage of time and the suburban growth of Baltimore County, the land once owned by the Carney family has been sold to individuals and developers.

Little did Thomas Carney, an industrious Irish immigrant, realize that his memory would live on by a community which bears his name.

The burned over area was located between Harford, Joppa, Belair, and Putty Hill Roads.