Queen Anne is a town in Queen Anne's and Talbot counties in the

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. The population was 222 at the 2010 census.

Geography

Queen Anne is located at (38.919039, -75.952827). According to the

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, the town has a total area of , all land.

Tuckahoe Creek Tuckahoe Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed April 1, 2011 tributary of the Choptank River on Maryland's Eastern Shore. It is sometimes (erroneously) referred to ...

passes by the town. The likely birthplace of

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is 2–3 miles south, near the banks of the Tuckahoe.

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passes to the north of town.

Tuckahoe State Park Tuckahoe State Park is a public recreation area along Tuckahoe Creek in Caroline and Queen Anne's counties on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, United States. Adkins Arboretum, a garden and preserve maintaining over 600 native plant species, o ...

is a short ride north of MD 404. The border between Talbot County and Queen Anne's County runs through the middle of town.

History

According to the Maryland Municipal League: :In the 1850s, the area that is now the town of Queen Anne, was part of a 225-acre farm owned by Jacob Morgan. Initially, the town nucleus was nothing but a 1½-story dwelling, but in 1864 Mr. Morgan built a more substantial place—it was known locally as “the mansion house,” and the locale was known as Morganville.Note that the Maryland Municipal League page for Queen Anne says the town was named "Morgansville", but see this map: Look at the east-northeast corner of this 1876/1877 map of the northeast section of Talbot County. :At that time, the Pennsylvania Railroad had been laid as far south as Greensboro and, a little later, to Ridgely and Hillsboro and thence across Tuckahoe Creek. In 1878, the railroad purchased a site for a station across the creek in Queen Anne’s County, and, quite logically, named it Queen Anne when the station was finally put into service about 1882. The train station made Queen Anne a good location for sending agricultural products to large cities. Middlemen would bring milk in cans from local dairy farms to the station. Several houses in town were converted to small hotels to accommodate these people.

Transportation

The primary means of travel to and from Queen Anne is by road. Maryland Route 404 Alternate, Maryland Route 303 and Maryland Route 518 are the state highways directly serving the town.

and Maryland Route 309 pass just outside the town corporate limits to the north and west.

Demographics

2010 census

As of the

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of 2010, there were 222 people, 83 households, and 54 families living in the town. The

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was . There were 89 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the town was 94.6%

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, 2.3%

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, 1.8% Asian, and 1.4% from two or more races. There were 83 households, of which 42.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 54.2% were

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living together, 8.4% had a female householder with no husband present, 2.4% had a male householder with no wife present, and 34.9% were non-families. 24.1% of all households were made up of individuals, and 9.6% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.67 and the average family size was 3.28. The median age in the town was 34.8 years. 27% of residents were under the age of 18; 10% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 27% were from 25 to 44; 26.2% were from 45 to 64; and 9.9% were 65 years of age or older. The gender makeup of the town was 48.2% male and 51.8% female.

2000 census

As of the

of 2000, there were 176 people, 67 households, and 52 families living in the town. The population density was . There were 72 housing units at an average density of . The racial makeup of the town was 97.16%

, 0.57%

, 0.57% Native American, 1.14% Asian and 0.57%

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. There were 67 households, out of which 43.3% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 62.7% were

living together, 10.4% had a female householder with no husband present, and 20.9% were non-families. 16.4% of all households were made up of individuals, and 7.5% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.63 and the average family size was 2.89. In the town, the population was spread out, with 30.1% under the age of 18, 3.4% from 18 to 24, 29.0% from 25 to 44, 24.4% from 45 to 64, and 13.1% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 39 years. For every 100 females, there were 107.1 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 98.4 males. The median income for a household in the town was $45,000, and the median income for a family was $55,417. Males had a median income of $31,806 versus $23,542 for females. The

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for the town was $16,016. About 2.0% of families and 4.0% of the population were below the

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, including 6.8% of those under the age of eighteen and none of those 65 or over.

References

{{authority control Towns in Maryland Towns in Queen Anne's County, Maryland Towns in Talbot County, Maryland