Sharptown, MD
Sharptown is a town in Wicomico County, Maryland, Wicomico County, Maryland, United States. The population was 651 at the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census. It is included in the Salisbury metropolitan area, Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area. History San Domingo School was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2007. Geography Sharptown is located at (38.540630, -75.719021). According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , of which is land and is water. Demographics 2010 census As of the census of 2010, there were 651 people, 251 households, and 176 families living in the town. The population density was . There were 290 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the town was 92.6% White (U.S. Census), White, 5.1% African American (U.S. Census), African American, 0.5% Asian (U.S. Census), Asian, and 1.8% from two or more races. Hispanic (U.S. Census), Hispanic or Latino (U.S. Census), ...
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Town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an origin with the German word , the Dutch word , and the Old Norse . The original Proto-Germanic word, *''tūnan'', is thought to be an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *''dūnom'' (cf. Old Irish , Welsh ). The original sense of the word in both Germanic and Celtic was that of a fortress or an enclosure. Cognates of ''town'' in many modern Germanic languages designate a fence or a hedge. In English and Dutch, the meaning of the word took on the sense of the space which these fences enclosed, and through which a track must run. In England, a town was a small community that could not afford or was not allowed to build walls or other larger fortifications, and built a palisade or stockade instead. In the Netherlands, this space was a garden, mor ...
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