Official Name: | Madison, Maryland |
Settlement Type: | Census-designated place |
Pushpin Map: | USA Maryland#USA |
Pushpin Label: | Madison |
Pushpin Map Caption: | Location in Maryland |
Subdivision Type: | Country |
Subdivision Type1: | State |
Subdivision Type2: | County |
Subdivision Name2: | Dorchester |
Unit Pref: | Imperial |
Area Footnotes: | [1] |
Area Total Km2: | 8.40 |
Area Land Km2: | 8.30 |
Area Water Km2: | 0.11 |
Area Total Sq Mi: | 3.25 |
Area Land Sq Mi: | 3.20 |
Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.04 |
Population As Of: | 2020 |
Population Total: | 205 |
Population Density Km2: | 24.70 |
Population Density Sq Mi: | 63.98 |
Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
Elevation Ft: | 4 |
Coordinates: | 38.5069°N -76.2219°W |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP codes |
Postal Code: | 21648, 21677 |
Area Code: | 410, 443, and 667 |
Blank Name: | FIPS code |
Blank Info: | 24-49700 |
Blank1 Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank1 Info: | 585655 |
Madison is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Dorchester County, Maryland, United States. The population was 204 at the 2010 census.[2]
In the early 19th century, the community was a hamlet known as "Tobacco Stick."[3] Around 1822, Harriet Tubman was born just outside the hamlet; in her youth, she lived in her father's cabin nearby, in what is now the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge.[4]
Madison is located in western Dorchester County, at the south end of Madison Bay, an arm of the Little Choptank River and part of the Chesapeake Bay estuary system. Maryland Route 16 passes through the community, leading northeast 10miles to Cambridge, the county seat, and southwest 5miles to Taylors Island.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the Madison CDP has a total area of 8.4km2, of which 8.3sqkm is land and 0.1sqkm, or 1.26%, is water.[2]