Poplar Island (Chesapeake Bay)

Poplar Island

Poplar Island in June 2019, facing east
Geography
Location	Chesapeake Bay
Coordinates	38°46′01″N 76°22′54″W / 38.76694°N 76.38167°W / 38.76694; -76.38167
Length	4.82 km (2.995 mi)
Width	0.85 km (0.528 mi)
Administration
United States
State	Maryland
Demographics
Population	0 (2020)

Poplar Island is a 3-mile-long (4.8-kilometer-long) island located on the Chesapeake Bay, part of Talbot County, Maryland. In the late 1800s it had a population of 100 living in the town of Valliant but it was abandoned by the 1920s due to erosion of the island. By the 1990s its land mass had dwindled down to a few acres. In 2001, a project led by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to restore the island began using dredged material from the Chesapeake Bay's approach channels to Baltimore, located approximately 30 miles north/north-west of the island.^[1]