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词条 Fishing Creek, Maryland
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  1. Description

  2. In the media

  3. References

  4. External links

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}}Fishing Creek is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Dorchester County, Maryland, United States, on Upper Hoopers Island. As of the 2010 census, the population of Fishing Creek was 163.[2]

It is in area code 410, and ZIP code 21634.

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 businesses which rely on seasonal workers.[3] 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 {{convert|15|mi}} south of the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge and {{convert|24|mi}} south of Cambridge. Hoopersville, on Middle Hooper Island, is {{convert|6|mi|0}} to the south.

In the media

Fishing Creek resident Louie "Rufus" Frase, 43 at the time, was a contestant on the summer 2007 CBS reality television series Pirate Master.

References

1. ^{{cite gnis|596534|Fishing Creek}}
2. ^{{cite web| url=http://factfinder2.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/G001/1600000US2428300| title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Fishing Creek CDP, Maryland| publisher=U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder| accessdate=October 29, 2015}}
3. ^{{Cite web|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/local/wp/2018/08/17/feature/trump-changed-a-seasonal-worker-program-now-marylands-crab-houses-are-losing-business/|title=These Maryland businesses rely on Mexican workers. Without visas this year, they say they are suffering.|last=Armus|first=Teo|date=August 17, 2018|website=Washington Post|language=en|archive-url=|archive-date=|dead-url=|access-date=2018-08-18}}

External links

  • HomeTownLocator: Fishing Creek (MD) - Community Profile
  • Restaurants in Fishing Creek
  • Ghosts of America: Spooky Ghost Tales from Fishing Creek, Maryland also known as Hoopersville (sic)
{{Dorchester County, Maryland}}

7 : Crabbing communities in Maryland|Fishing communities in Maryland|Hoopers Island|Unincorporated communities in Dorchester County, Maryland|Unincorporated communities in Maryland|Populated places on the Chesapeake Bay|Populated coastal places in Maryland

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