| Sherwood, Maryland | |
|---|---|
| Unincorporated community | |
  Sherwood | |
| Coordinates: 38°45′41″N76°19′08″W / 38.76139°N 76.31889°W Coordinates: 38°45′41″N76°19′08″W / 38.76139°N 76.31889°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Maryland |
| County | Talbot |
| Elevation | 7 ft (2 m) |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| ZIP code | 21665 |
| Area code(s) | 410, 443, and 667 |
| GNIS feature ID | 591272 [1] |
Sherwood is an unincorporated community in Talbot County, Maryland, United States. [1] Sherwood is located along Maryland Route 33 on the eastern shore of the Chesapeake Bay south of Claiborne and north of Tilghman Island. The United States Postal Service has assigned Sherwood the ZIP Code 21665. The Sandy, a log canoe ported in Sherwood, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985. [2]
In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not governed by a local municipal corporation; similarly an unincorporated community is a settlement that is not governed by its own local municipal corporation, but rather is administered as part of larger administrative divisions, such as a township, parish, borough, county, city, canton, state, province or country. Occasionally, municipalities dissolve or disincorporate, which may happen if they become fiscally insolvent, and services become the responsibility of a higher administration. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. In most other countries of the world, there are either no unincorporated areas at all, or these are very rare; typically remote, outlying, sparsely populated or uninhabited areas.
Talbot County is a county located in the heart of the Eastern Shore of Maryland in the U.S. state of Maryland. As of the 2010 census, the population was 37,782. Its county seat is Easton. The county was named for Lady Grace Talbot, the wife of Sir Robert Talbot, an Anglo-Irish statesman, and the sister of Lord Baltimore.
Maryland is a state in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States, bordering Virginia, West Virginia, and the District of Columbia to its south and west; Pennsylvania to its north; and Delaware to its east. The state's largest city is Baltimore, and its capital is Annapolis. Among its occasional nicknames are Old Line State, the Free State, and the Chesapeake Bay State. It is named after the English queen Henrietta Maria, known in England as Queen Mary.
