Fishing Creek is an
unincorporated community
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and
census-designated place
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CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the count ...
(CDP) in
Dorchester County Dorchester County is the name of two counties in the United States:
* Dorchester County, Maryland
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,
Maryland
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, United States, on
Upper Hoopers Island. As of the
2010 census, the population of Fishing Creek was 163.
It is in
area code 410
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Year 410 (CDX) was a common year starting on Saturday (link will display the full calendar) of the Julian calendar. At the time, it was known as the Year after the Consulship of Honorius and Theodosius (or, less frequently, year 1163 ...
, and
ZIP code 21634.
Demographics
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
Crab fisheries are fisheries which capture or farm crabs. True crabs make up 20% of all crustaceans caught and farmed worldwide, with about 1.4 million tonnes being consumed annually. The horse crab, ''Portunus trituberculatus'', accounts for on ...
businesses which rely on seasonal workers.
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 south of the
Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge and south of
Cambridge
Cambridge ( ) is a College town, university city and the county town in Cambridgeshire, England. It is located on the River Cam approximately north of London. As of the 2021 United Kingdom census, the population of Cambridge was 145,700. Cam ...
.
Hoopersville, on Middle Hooper Island, is to the south.
In the media
Fishing Creek resident Louie "Rufus" Frase, 43 at the time, was a contestant on the summer 2007
CBS
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reality television series
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''
Pirate Master''.
References
External links
HomeTownLocator: Fishing Creek (MD) - Community ProfileRestaurants in Fishing Creek
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Crabbing communities in Maryland
Fishing communities in Maryland
Hoopers Island
Unincorporated communities in Dorchester County, Maryland
Unincorporated communities in Maryland
Maryland populated places on the Chesapeake Bay