Herring Bay

Herring Bay is a bay in Anne Arundel County in the U.S. state of Maryland. It lies in the mid-Chesapeake Bay along the western shore.

Photo: Famartin, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Type: Bay
Description: bay on western Chesapeake Bay Maryland, United States
Also known as: “Baie Herring” and “Heringe Creek”
Address: MD

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Fairhaven and Holly Hill.

Fairhaven

Neighborhood

Fairhaven is an unincorporated community in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. Maryland Route 423 connects Fairhaven with Maryland Route 2, which goes north to Annapolis, the state capital, and south to Prince Frederick, the county seat of Calvert County.

Holly Hill

Locality

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Holly Hill, also known as Holland's Hills or Rose Valley, is a historic house at Friendship, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. It was initially named as Holland's Hills for Francis Holland, who bought the land in 1665.

Rose Haven

Neighborhood

Photo: Fuzheado, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Rose Haven is an unincorporated community in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. Old Colony Cove Site was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.

Herring Bay

Category: body of water
Location: Anne Arundel County, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
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Latitude

38.7529° or 38° 45′ 10″ north

Longitude

-76.54329° or 76° 32′ 36″ west

Open location code

87C5QF34+5M

OpenStreetMap ID

node 369000785

OpenStreetMap feature

natural=bay

GeoNames ID

4357849

Wikidata ID

Q5744091

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Cebuano to Japanese—“Herring Bay” goes by many names.

Cebuano: “Herring Bay (luuk sa Estados Unidos, Maryland)”
Cebuano: “Herring Bay”
Japanese: “ヘーリング湾”

Places with the Same Name

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Fairhaven Cliffs and Owings Cliffs.

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