Sharptown
Sharptown is a town in Wicomico County, Maryland, United States. The population was 651 at the 2010 census. It is included in the Salisbury, Maryland-Delaware Metropolitan Statistical Area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 620 residents
- Description: town in Wicomico County, Maryland, United States
- Also known as: “Sharp Town”, “Sharpetown”, “Sharptown, Maryland”, “Sharptown, MD”, “Slabtown”, and “Twifords Wharf”
- Postal code: 21861
Places of Interest
Highlights include Galestown Cemetery and Dickerson Potato House.
Galestown Cemetery
Cemetery
Galestown Cemetery is a cemetery located in Galestown, Maryland. One person of note interred there is Homer Smoot, a one-time professional baseball player.
Dickerson Potato House
Building
Photo: Linda Roy Walls, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dickerson Potato House is a historic potato house located near Delmar, Sussex County, Delaware. It one of the last surviving examples of its building type. Dickerson Potato House is situated 2½ miles east of Sharptown.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Eldorado and Portsville.
Eldorado
Hamlet
Eldorado EL-də-RAY-doh is a town in Dorchester County, Maryland, United States. The population was 45 at the 2020 census, making it the second smallest town in Maryland. Eldorado is situated 4½ miles northwest of Sharptown.
Portsville
Hamlet
Portsville is an unincorporated community in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. Portsville is located on the southern bank of Broad Creek, 0.8 miles southwest of Bethel. Portsville is situated 5 miles east of Sharptown.
Woodland
Hamlet
Woodland is an unincorporated community in Sussex County, Delaware, United States. Woodland is located on the Nanticoke River, 3.8 miles southwest of Seaford. Woodland is situated 5 miles northeast of Sharptown.
Sharptown
- Categories: town in the United States and locality
- Location: Wicomico, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.54262° or 38° 32′ 33″ northLongitude
-75.71938° or 75° 43′ 10″ westPopulation
620Elevation
10 feet (3 metres)Open location code
87C6G7VJ+26OpenStreetMap ID
node 158507654OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
4369360Wikidata ID
Q753376
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Sharptown” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شاربتاون”
- Basque: “Sharptown”
- Catalan: “Sharptown”
- Cebuano: “Sharptown”
- Chechen: “Шарптаун (Мэриленд)”
- Chechen: “Шарптаун”
- Chinese: “Sharptown”
- Chinese: “夏普敦 (馬里蘭州)”
- Chinese: “夏普敦”
- Dutch: “Sharptown”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شاربتاون”
- French: “Sharptown”
- German: “Sharptown”
- Gilaki: “شارپتاؤن (مريلند)”
- Gilaki: “شارپتاؤن”
- Hungarian: “Sharptown”
- Italian: “Sharptown”
- Kazakh: “Şarptawn”
- Kazakh: “Шарптаун”
- Kazakh: “شارپتاۋن”
- Kirghiz: “Шарптаун”
- Ladin: “Sharptown”
- Mazanderani: “شارپتوون (مریلند)”
- Mazanderani: “شارپتوون”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sharptown”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sharptown”
- Norwegian: “Sharptown”
- Persian: “شارپتوون، مریلند”
- Persian: “شارپتوون”
- Polish: “Sharptown”
- Portuguese: “Sharptown”
- Serbian: “Шарптаун”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sharptown, Maryland”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sharptown”
- South Azerbaijani: “شارپتوون، مریلند”
- Spanish: “Sharptown”
- Tatar: “Шарптаун (Мэриленд)”
- Tatar: “Шарптаун”
- Ukrainian: “Шарптаун”
- Uzbek: “Sharptown”
- Uzbek: “Шарптоwн”
- Volapük: “Sharptown”
- Welsh: “Sharptown, Maryland”
- Welsh: “Sharptown”
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