Maryland and Virginia

Artificial Reef and Oyster Reef Locations

This page provides coordinates for artificial and oyster reefs in Maryland and Virginia waters.

More descriptions of some of the these reefs are here.

Maryland Reef Sites-Chesapeake Bay

Name	Location	Area Permit (acres)	Material	Date	Latitude	Longitude
Cedar Point	Patuxent River	155	rockpiles	1988	38 18.43	076 22.43
			concrete units	1988
			fiberglass unit	1988
Cedarhurst	Bay off South River	50	concrete rubble	1983	38 50.40	076 27.72
Chesapeake Beach	Bay off Holland Point	50	tire units	1968	38 42.95	076 30.18
Choptank Bridge Pier		50	concrete rubble	1986
Dolly's Lump	Bay below Sandy Point	50	concrete pipe	1968
Gales Lumps	Bay below Tolchester	50	concrete pipe	1968
Holland Point	Bay off Holland Point	50	FAD	1986	38 44.60	076 29.07
Hollicutts Noose	Mouth of Eastern Bay	50	concrete rubble	1970	38 50.51	076 20.57
			tire units	1968
			steel tug	1975
Jane's Island	Tangier Sound near Crisfield	50	tire units	1968
Little Cove Point	Mouth of Patuxent River	75	tire units	1968	38 20.53	076 22.80
Love Point	Bay mouth of Chester River		tire units	1968	39 04.08	076 17.45
				1991
Plum Point	Bay below Chesapeake Beach	3440	concrete cubes	1994	38 37.19	076 29.36
Point No Point		1050	(5) barges	1986	38 06.85	076 17.85
			shell pile	1986
Point Lookout	Bay at fishing pier	50	clam shell	1990	38 02.80	076 18.63
Pooles Island	Bay NE of Hart-Miller Is.	230	concrete rubble	1994	39 14.37	076 17.48
Severn River Bridge		2.5	concrete rubble	1994	38 59.63	076 29.07
Sharp's Island	Bay SW of Sharp's Island	50	FAD	1987	38 33.95	076 24.42
Tangier Sound	on state line	86	rockpiles	1988	37 55.22	075 56.67
Tilghman Island	Bay W of Tilghman Island	50	rockpiles	1988	38 41.51	076 22.65
			concrete rubble	1992
			tire units	1992
			(2) barges	1991
Tolchester	Bay NW of Tolchester	50	concrete rubble	1986+	39 14.48	075 16.13

Hackett Point					38 59.40	076 24.17
Hawk Cove					38 14.63	076 23.30

Virginia Oyster Reefs

Reef Name	Reef Location	Date Constructed	Bushels Oyster Shell	Latitude DM.MM	Longitude DM.MM
Fox Island Rock	Tangier Sound	2002	93,149	37 54.417	75 56.333
Johns Rock	Tangier Sound	2002	95,311	37 54.183	75 55.867
Thoroughfare Rock 1	Tangier Sound	2002	94,662	37 54.600	75 55.817
Thoroughfare Rock 2	Tangier Sound	2002	87,629	37 52.133	75 55..400
Thoroughfare Rock 3	Tangier Sound	2002	98,788	37 51.450	75 55..633
Marshall Rock 1	Pocomoke Sound	2002	93,000	37 54.417	75 47.717
Marshall Rock 2	Pocomoke Sound	2002	93,000	37 54.100	75 48.283
Marshall Rock 3	Pocomoke Sound	2002	93,000	37 53.817	75 47.267

More Reef Information

Oyster Reefs in Maryland and Virginia
The Blackfish Banks Artificial Reef
The Crisfield Artificial Reef
Virginia's Artificial Reefs

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