 Cecil County thus joined most of the other larger, increasingly urban and complex county governments in central Maryland with county executive-county council forms (such as Baltimore, Harford, Anne Arundel, Howard, Prince George's, and Montgomery counties).Elected on November 8, 2016, Alan McCarthy (R) is the current County Executive.According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of , of which is land and (17%) is water.