Fishing Creek, Maryland

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Fishing Creek, Maryland
Census-designated place
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Fishing Creek
Location within the State of Maryland
Coordinates: 38°19′20″N76°13′28″W / 38.32222°N 76.22444°W / 38.32222; -76.22444
Country Flag of the United States.svg United States
State Flag of Maryland.svg Maryland
County Flag of Dochester County, Maryland.png Dorchester
Area
[1]
 • Total
1.38 sq mi (3.56 km2)
 • Land1.06 sq mi (2.73 km2)
 • Water0.32 sq mi (0.83 km2)
Elevation
0 ft (0 m)
Population
 (2020)
 • Total
173
 • Density163.83/sq mi (63.26/km2)
Time zone UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP code
21634
Area codes 410, 443, and 667
GNIS feature ID596534 [2]

Fishing Creek is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Dorchester County, Maryland, United States, on Upper Hoopers Island. As of the 2010 census, the population of Fishing Creek was 163. [3]

Contents

It is in area code 410 and ZIP code 21634.

Demographics

Historical population
CensusPop.Note%±
2020 173—
U.S. Decennial Census [4]

Description

Located on a narrow island served primarily by Hoopers Island Road, Fishing Creek has a restaurant (Old Salty's), a post office, and a general store (Hoopers Island General Store), as well as crabbing businesses which rely on seasonal workers. [5] Local legend posits a number of ghosts in the Fishing Creek area. The village is on the upper island of the three-island chain known as Hoopers Island, about 15 miles (24 km) south of the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge and 24 miles (39 km) south of Cambridge. Hoopersville, on Middle Hooper Island, is 6 miles (10 km) to the south.

In the media

Fishing Creek resident Louie "Rufus" Frase, 43 at the time, was a contestant on the summer 2007 CBS reality television series Pirate Master .

References

  1. ↑ "2020 U.S. Gazetteer Files". United States Census Bureau. Retrieved April 26, 2022.
  2. ↑ "Fishing Creek". Geographic Names Information System . United States Geological Survey, United States Department of the Interior.
  3. ↑ "Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Fishing Creek CDP, Maryland". U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder. Retrieved October 29, 2015.[ dead link ]
  4. ↑ "Census of Population and Housing". Census.gov. Retrieved June 4, 2016.
  5. ↑ Armus, Teo (August 17, 2018). "These Maryland businesses rely on Mexican workers. Without visas this year, they say they are suffering". Washington Post. Retrieved August 18, 2018.
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