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Smith Island is a collection of three distinct island communities – Tylerton, Rhodes Point, and Ewell, Maryland – on the Chesapeake Bay, on the border of Maryland and Virginia territorial waters in the United States. The island is the last inhabited island in Maryland that is not accessible by car (the Virginia portion of the island is not ...
Glenn Martin National Wildlife Refuge includes the northern half of Smith Island (in Somerset County, Maryland), which lies 11 miles (18 km) west of Crisfield, Maryland, and Watts Island (in Accomack County, Virginia), which is located between the eastern shore of Virginia and Tangier Island. Both islands are situated in the lower Chesapeake Bay.
Ewell is an unincorporated community located on Smith Island in Somerset County, Maryland, United States. [ 1 ] Post office for the small town of Ewell on Smith Island, Maryland
Tylerton is an unincorporated community located on Smith Island in Somerset County, Maryland, United States. [1] Tylerton can be accessed via a ferry from Crisfield, Maryland . It is a waterman village of 50 residents.
These Islands are relatively permanent, although some are disappearing on the scale of a few centuries, like Smith Island in the Chesapeake Bay. There are also a number of unnamed islands in Maryland, many of which are very temporary in nature, lasting only a few years or decades, both in the tidal environment and also in Maryland's larger ...
Articles related to Smith Island in the U.S. state of Maryland. Pages in category "Smith Island, Maryland" The following 8 pages are in this category, out of 8 total.
Tangier Sound is a sound of the Chesapeake Bay bounded on the west by Tangier Island in Virginia, and Smith Island and South Marsh Island in Maryland, by Deal Island in Maryland on the north, and the mainland of the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Pocomoke Sound on the east. It stretches into Virginia as far south as Watts Island.
MD 177 was completed as a concrete highway to Gibson Island in 1928. [10] MD 177 was widened to at least 18 feet (5.5 m) from Lipin's Corner to Gibson Island by 1930. [11] After MD 2 was relocated to Governor Ritchie Highway in 1936, MD 177 was extended west from Lipin's Corner to the new four-lane divided highway by 1939.