Madison, Maryland
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|official_name = Madison, Maryland
|settlement_type = Census-designated place
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|image_caption = Malone's Church, located just south of Madison
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|pushpin_label = Madison
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|subdivision_type = Country
|subdivision_name = {{Flagu|United States|size=23px}}
|subdivision_type1 = State
|subdivision_name1 = {{Flag|Maryland|size=23px}}
|subdivision_type2 = County
|subdivision_name2 = {{Flagicon image|Flag of Dochester County, Maryland.png|size=23px}} Dorchester
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|unit_pref = Imperial
|area_magnitude =
|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
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|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
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|elevation_ft = 4
|coordinates = {{coord|38|30|25|N|76|13|19|W|region:US-MD_type:city|display=inline,title}}
|postal_code_type = ZIP codes
|postal_code = 21648, 21677
|area_code = 410, 443, and 667
|blank_name = FIPS code
|blank_info = 24-49700
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|blank1_info = 585655
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Madison is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Dorchester County, Maryland, United States.{{gnis|585655}} The population was 204 at the 2010 census.{{cite web| url=http://factfinder2.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/DEC/10_DP/G001/1600000US2449700| title=Geographic Identifiers: 2010 Demographic Profile Data (G001): Madison CDP, Maryland| publisher=U.S. Census Bureau, American Factfinder| accessdate=October 29, 2015}}{{dead link|bot=medic|date=April 2020}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}
History
In the early 19th century, the community was a hamlet known as "Tobacco Stick."{{cite web| url=https://visitdorchester.org/see-and-do/charming-towns/| title=Visit Dorchester: Charming Towns| accessdate=April 20, 2021}} 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.{{cite news |last=Ruane |first=Michael E. |date=April 20, 2021 |title=Harriet Tubman's lost Maryland home found, archaeologists say |work=The Washington Post |location=Washington, D.C. |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/04/20/harriet-tubman-maryland-home-found/ |access-date=April 20, 2021}}
Geography
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 {{convert|10|mi|0}} to Cambridge, the county seat, and southwest {{convert|5|mi|0}} to Taylors Island.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the Madison CDP has a total area of {{convert|8.4|km2|order=flip}}, of which {{convert|8.3|sqkm|order=flip}} is land and {{convert|0.1|sqkm|order=flip|2}}, or 1.26%, is water.
Demographics
{{US Census population
|2020= 205
|footnote=U.S. Decennial Census{{cite web|url=http://www.census.gov/prod/www/decennial.html|title=Census of Population and Housing|publisher=Census.gov|accessdate=June 4, 2016}}
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References
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{{Dorchester County, Maryland}}
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Category:Census-designated places in Dorchester County, Maryland
Category:Census-designated places in Maryland
Category:Maryland populated places on the Chesapeake Bay
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