Choptank, Maryland
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Choptank is an unincorporated town 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 ...
on the
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, in Caroline County,
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, United States. As of the 2010 census it had a population of 129. The town was founded in the 17th century. It is located on the tidal Choptank River, which flows into
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. Tradition has it that the name "choptank" was an Anglicization of the Algonquian ''tshapetank'' and its namesake tribe.''Maryland: A Colonial History''. p. 22 The town is located at the southwestern corner of Caroline County on the northeast bank of the Choptank River, just north of where Hunting Creek enters the river from the east. The Choptank River flows southwest to the city of
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and to Chesapeake Bay. Choptank Road leads northeast to the town of Preston and the nearest state highways, Maryland Routes 16 and 331.


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Census-designated places in Caroline County, Maryland Census-designated places in Maryland Maryland populated places on the Chesapeake Bay {{CarolineCountyMD-geo-stub