Country United States County Dorchester Time zone Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) Zip code 21634 Local time Sunday 12:25 PM | State Maryland Elevation 0 ft (0 m) GNIS feature ID 596534 Population 163 (2010) | |
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Weather 1°C, Wind NW at 14 km/h, 36% Humidity Area code Area codes 410, 443, and 667 Area 3.626 km² (259 ha Land / 78 ha Water) | ||
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.
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Map of Fishing Creek, MD 21634, USA
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. 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 15 miles (24 km) south of the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge and 24 miles (39 km) south of Cambridge. Hoopersville, on Middle Hooper Island, is 6 miles (10 km) 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.