Poplar Island (Chesapeake Bay)
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Poplar Island is a 3-mile-long (4.8-kilometer-long) island located on the Chesapeake Bay, part of Talbot County, Maryland. In the late 1800s it had a population of 100 living in the town of Valliant but it was abandoned by the 1920s due to erosion of the island. By the 1990s its land mass had dwindled down to a few acres. In 2001, a project led by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to restore the island began using dredged material from the Chesapeake Bay's approach channels to Baltimore, located approximately 30 miles north/north-west of the island.[1]
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Geography | |
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Location | Chesapeake Bay |
Coordinates | 38°46′01″N 76°22′54″W |
Length | 4.82 km (2.995 mi) |
Width | 0.85 km (0.528 mi) |
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United States | |
State | Maryland |
Demographics | |
Population | 0 (2020) |
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