Great Cypress Swamp

Cluster of bald cypress trees in Trap Pond State Park

The Great Cypress Swamp (also known as Burnt Swamp, Great Pocomoke Swamp, Cypress Swamp, or Big Cypress Swamp), is a forested freshwater swamp located on the Delmarva Peninsula in south Delaware and southeastern Maryland, United States. As of 2000, it is the largest contiguous forest on the Delmarva Peninsula.[1]

Located at 38°29′N 75°18′W / 38.483°N 75.300°W / 38.483; -75.300, it is one of the northernmost of the Bald Cypress swamps common in the southeastern United States (Battle Creek Cypress Swamp in Calvert County, Maryland is slightly further north, but much smaller). It covers about 50 square miles (130 km2), mostly in southern Sussex County, Delaware. It is the source of the Pocomoke River, which flows south, and Pepper Creek, which flows northeast.

  1. ^ Christopher M. Heckscher (2000). "Forest-Dependent Birds of the Great Cypress (North pocomoke) Swamp: Species Composition and Implications for Conservation". Northeastern Naturalist. 7 (2): 113–130. JSTOR 3858646.