Chesapeake Beach, Maryland Chesapeake Beach, Maryland Town of Chesapeake Beach Location of Chesapeake Beach, Maryland Location of Chesapeake Beach, Maryland Map of old Chesapeake Beach Railroad from D.C.
To Chesapeake Beach Chesapeake Beach is a town in Calvert County, Maryland.
Its primary attractions include a Railway Museum & Trail, the Chesapeake Beach Water Park, marinas, piers, charter boat fishing, and a Veterans Memorial Park.
Chesapeake Beach is positioned at 38 41 42 N 76 32 10 W (38.695070, -76.536125). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 2.79 square miles (7.23 km2), of which, 2.71 square miles (7.02 km2) is territory and 0.08 square miles (0.21 km2) is water. These cliffs, and the rest along the Western Shore of the Chesapeake Bay, fortress as high as 180 feet above the water and are constantly eroding due to freeze/thaw and wave action.
There were 2,134 homeholds of which 43.1% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 51.4% were married couples living together, 15.2% had a female homeholder with no husband present, 4.6% had a male homeholder with no wife present, and 28.8% were non-families.
28.6% of inhabitants were under the age of 18; 6.8% were between the ages of 18 and 24; 29.6% were from 25 to 44; 27.7% were from 45 to 64; and 7.1% were 65 years of age or older.
There were 1,217 homeholds out of which 35.2% had kids under the age of 18 living with them, 52.7% were married couples living together, 12.9% had a female homeholder with no husband present, and 29.1% were non-families.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 27.2% under the age of 18, 7.4% from 18 to 24, 34.4% from 25 to 44, 24.0% from 45 to 64, and 7.0% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town was $68,365, and the median income for a family was $74,167.
About 1.6% of families and 3.8% of the populace were below the poverty line, including 3.8% of those under age 18 and 5.5% of those age 65 or over.
Chesapeake Beach was established as a resort improve at the end of the Chesapeake Beach Railway, a short line barns from Washington, DC.
Between steamer ships from Baltimore and trains from Washington, the weekend populace of Chesapeake Beach reached into the 10,000s amid the 1920s, until economic depression, and a bad hotel fire, brought an end to the barns .
The assembly of the Bay Bridge to the Eastern Shore of Maryland in the 1950s enabled many of the visitors who used to spend their summers in Chesapeake Beach to now spend their time in Ocean City, Maryland instead. A exhibition at the old barns station still exists today in Chesapeake Beach with many historic photos and an old passenger car from the barns .
In the new millennium a boardwalk and pier, and a new condominium evolution have risen in Chesapeake Beach.
Chesapeake Beach is also host to the United States Naval Research Laboratory Chesapeake Bay Detachment that experiments with various military radar systems and fire suppression technology.
Perched up on the sandstone cliffs along the Western Shore of the Chesapeake Bay the lab is able to use their radars against a range of surface and air targets in the Bay.
Hurricane Isabel hit Chesapeake Beach and the adjoining town/city of North Beach, Maryland in 2003.
The storm surge pushed flood waters into both towns, damaging many homes beyond repair in North Beach, and knocking out electrical services for nearly one week. Chesapeake Beach Hotel Co.
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Towns in Maryland - Towns in Calvert County, Maryland - Populated places on the Chesapeake Bay - Populated coastal places in Maryland - Beaches of Maryland
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