22 GAZETTEER OF MARYLAND. [bull. 231. 
Catoctin; station in Frederick County on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 
Catonsville; village in Baltimore County. 
Cavetown; post village in Washington County on the Western Maryland Railroad. 
Cayots; post village in Cecil County. 
Cecil; county, organized in 1(547, our of the most thriving and enterprising in the 
State. It is situated in the northeast corner of the State, bounded on the north 
by Pennsylvania, east by Delaware, south by Sassafras River and west by Chesa- 
peake Bay and Susquehanna River. The surface is of a mixed character, that 
part above the bay being mostly rolling and hilly, while below Elkton it is level. 
The area of the county is 360 square miles, of which almost two-thirds, or 
141,401 acres were under cultivation in 1900. The population for the same year 
was 24,662. The county seat is Elkton, a -town of about 2,600 inhabitants. Port 
Deposit is the principal business town, having a population of about 1,600, while 
Chesapeake City is the third town in size, having a population of about 1,200. 
The average magnetic declination in 1900 was 4° 45 / west. The annual rainfall 
ordinarily ranges between 45 and 50 inches and the mean annual temperature 
between 50° and 55°. 
Cecil; creek, a small stream in St. Mary Comity flowing into St. Clements Bay. 
Cecilton; village in Cecil County. 
Cedar; creek, a small stream flowing into Fishing Bay in Dorchester County. 
Cedar; hill in Harford County. 
Cedar; point in Anne Arundel County, projecting into West River. 
Cedar; point in Anne Arundel County, projecting into Severn River. 
Cedar; point in Charles County, projecting into Potomac River. 
Cedar; point in Dorchester County, projecting into Honga River. 
Cedar; point in Kent County, projecting into Chester River. 
Cedar; point in St. Mary County, projecting into Chesapeake Bay. 
Cedar; point in Talbot County, projecting into Broad Bay. 
Cedar; point in Worcester County, projecting into St. Martin River. 
Cedar; small marshy island in Chincoteague Bay in Worcester County. 
Cedar; straits, on the boundary between Somerset County, Md., and Accomac 
County, Va. 
Cedar Cliff; village in Allegany County. 
Cedargrove; post village in Montgomery County. 
Cedarville; post village in Prince George County on the Washington, Potomac and 
Chesapeake Railroad. 
Centerville; county seat of Queen Anne County. Population, 1,231. 
Chalk; point in Anne Arundel County, projecting into West River. 
Champ; post village in Somerset County. 
Chance; post village in Somerset County. 
Chance; point in Talbot County, projecting into Harris Creek. 
Chancellor; point in St. Mary County, projecting into St. Mary River. 
Chancellor; point in Talbot County, projecting into Choptank River. 
Chancellors; point in Dorchester County, projecting into Choptank River. 
Chaney; post village in Calvert County on the Chesapeake Beach Railway. 
Chaneyville; post village in Calvert County. 
Chapel; creek, a small branch of Choptank River in Dorchester County. 
Chapel; point in Charles County, projecting into Port Tobacco River. 
Chapel; village in Harford County. 
Chapters; point in Wicomico County, projecting into Nanticoke River. 
Chaptico; bay, an inlet of Wicomico River in St. Mary County. 
Chaptico; creek, a small tributary to Chaptico Bay in St. Mary County. 
Chaptico; post village in St. Mary County. 
Charles; small branch of Western Branch in Prince George County. 
