Fox Creek Marshes

Fox Creek Marshes is in , . Fox Creek Marshes is situated nearby to the locality , as well as near .

Places of Interest

Highlights include Sandy Point State Reservation and Crane Beach.

Protected area
Photo: Botteville, Public domain.
is a coastal state park located in the town of at the southern tip of . The reservation is managed by the Department of Conservation and Recreation and is an important nesting area for the piping plover and the least tern.

Beach
Photo: Jrpvaldi, Public domain.
is a 1,234-acre conservation and recreation property located in , immediately north of . It consists of a four-mile-long sandy beachfront, dunes, and a maritime pitch pine forest.

Island
, sometimes known as , Ipswich, is a part of , in , in the United States. For nearly two centuries, was a small, but thriving community of fishermen, farmers, and clam diggers, until the land was purchased by the US Government and turned into a wildlife refuge in the middle of the 20th century.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Ipswich and Essex.

Photo: Wikimedia, CC BY-SA 2.5.
is a seaside town of 14,000 people in . Home to Willowdale State Forest and Sandy Point State Reservation, includes the southern part of Plum Island.

Photo: GMushinsky, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a town in on Cape Ann in the region of . Settled by direct descendants of the Mayflower passengers in the early 1600s, it was later world-renowned as North America's fishing schooner construction center.

Photo: Faolin42, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a city in with a population of about 7,500 in 2020. is closely tied to its sister town, Wenham, sharing a school system, library, recreation department and commuter rail station.

Fox Creek Marshes

Latitude
42.68683° or 42° 41′ 13″ north
Longitude
-70.7879° or 70° 47′ 16″ west
Elevation
3 feet (1 metre)
Open location code
87JFM6P6+PR
Open­Street­Map ID
way 346383337
Open­Street­Map feature
natural=­wetland
Geo­Names ID
4937195
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Satellite Map

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