Choptank

Demographic figures from US Census Bureau · ACS 5-year estimates. Overview below cites Wikipedia and may reference a different year.

City facts

Facts from Wikidata (CC0).

Overview

Choptank is an unincorporated town and census-designated place on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, in Caroline County, Maryland, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 129.

Demographics & economy

Source: US Census Bureau — American Community Survey, 5-year estimates.

Geography

Coordinates & boundaries from the US Census TIGER/Line shapefiles.

Current forecast

Forecast for Choptank, MD from NOAA NWS API.

Health (adults)

Age-adjusted prevalence estimates from CDC PLACES (latest release).

Wildlife & biodiversity

Citizen-science & research observations from the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

Schools

Public K–12 schools within ~10 mi from Urban Institute Education Data Portal (NCES Common Core of Data, 2022).

Earthquake history

Events from the USGS Earthquake Catalog (global) (FDSN Event Web Service).

Notable people from here

Home Run Baker

American baseball player (1886–1963)

William Oswald Mills

American politician (1924-1973)

William Noble Andrews

American politician, Maryland (1876–1937)

Philemon Dickinson

American politician

Samuel Green

African American abolitionist and former slave

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Jean Patchett

American fashion model

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Emma V Edmondson Jacobs

American schoolteacher

J

James Thomas Jacobs

American physician

L

Linda "Bosie" Edmondson Jacobs Murdaugh

American music teacher

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William Vans Edmondson Jacobs

Commodore in the United States Revenue Cutter Service (now known as the Coast Guard)

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Emma Edmondson Jacobs

American schoolteacher

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Duvall A. Jones

biologist

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Manasses Grove

American banker and university administrator (1906-2003)

People born within ~10 km, from Wikidata (CC0). Click any name for their Wikipedia article.

Nearby places in Maryland

• Preston
  3 mi away
• Trappe
  5.7 mi away
• Hurlock
  5.9 mi away
• Federalsburg
  9.6 mi away
• Algonquin
  10 mi away
• Eldorado
  11 mi away
• Cambridge
  11.2 mi away
• Brookview
  11.3 mi away
• Williston
  11.5 mi away
• Oxford
  11.8 mi away
• Cordova
  13.1 mi away · pop. 448
• Galestown
  15.1 mi away

Browse all places in Maryland →

Geography & sun

Elevation, sunrise/sunset and daylight from Open-Meteo. Solar climatology from NASA POWER.

Public attention

Pageview totals from the Wikimedia Pageviews API.

Books about Choptank

Dredging the Choptank

Kimberley Lynne · 2008

Choptank folio, Maryland

Benjamin L. Miller · 1912

Between the Nanticoke and the Choptank

Christopher Weeks · 1984

Miocene marine diatoms from the Choptank Formation, Calvert County, Maryland

George William Andrews · 1976

Bridge across Choptank River at Cambridge, Md

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce · 1929

Bridge across Choptank River near Cambridge, Md

United States. Congress. House. Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce · 1930

Choptank River watershed, Maryland

Conservation Effects Assessment Project · 2005

Cetothere skeletons from the Miocene Choptank formation of Maryland and Virginia

Remington Kellogg · 1969

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