Fishing Creek, Maryland


Fishing Creek is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Dorchester County, Maryland, United States, on Upper Hoopers Island. As of the 2010 census, the population of Fishing Creek was 163.
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, a post office, and a general store, as well as crabbing businesses which rely on seasonal workers. 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 south of the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge and south of Cambridge. Hoopersville, on Middle Hooper Island, is 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.