unincorporated community
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and
census-designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.
CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...
in
Dorchester County Dorchester County is the name of two counties in the United States:
* Dorchester County, Maryland
* Dorchester County, South Carolina
Dorchester County is located in the U.S. state of South Carolina. As of the 2020 census, the population was ...
,
Maryland
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, United States, in the state's
Eastern Shore Eastern Shore may refer to:
* Regions in the Delmarva Peninsula:
** Eastern Shore of Maryland
** Eastern Shore of Virginia
* Eastern Shore (Nova Scotia), a region
* Eastern Shore (electoral district), a provincial electoral district in Nova Scotia
...
region. The population was 173 at the 2010 census. It is known for hunting,
crabbing
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National Register of Historic Places
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Taylors Island is in western Dorchester County on the eastern shore of
Chesapeake Bay
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. It is separated from the mainland on the east by Slaughter Creek.
Maryland Route 16
Maryland Route 16 (MD 16) is a state highway in the U.S. state of Maryland. The state highway runs from Taylors Island, Maryland, Taylors Island east to the Delaware state line in Hickman, Maryland, Hickman, where the highway ...
leads northeast from Taylors Island to
Cambridge
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, the Dorchester County seat.
According to the
United States Census Bureau
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, the Taylors Island CDP occupies the central, northern, and western parts of the island. The CDP has a total area of , of which , or 0.47%, is water.