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Jewell; post village in Anne Arundel County. 
Joes Ridge; creek, a small stream on Smith Island in Somerset County flowing into 
Chesapeake Bay. 
Johns Hammock; marsh in Assawoman Bay in Worcester County. 
Johnson; bay, an arm of Chincoteague Bay in Worcester County. 
Johnson; creek, a small stream flowing into Ape Hole Creek in Somerset County. 
Johnson; small pond in Wicomico County drained by Beaverdam Creek, a tributary 
of Wicomico River. 
Jones; creek, a small tributary of Annemessex River in Somerset County. 
Jones; creek, a small tributary of Manokin River in Somerset County. 
Jones; point in Calvert County, projecting into Patuxent River. 
Jones; small pond in Wicomico County drained by Beaverdam Creek, a tributary of 
Wicomico River. 
Jones; post village in Worcester County. 
Jones; wharf on Patuxent River in St. Mary County. 
Jones; wharf on St. Mary River in St. Mary County. 
Jones Falls; creek, rises in Lake Roland and flows through Baltimore City into 
Northwest Harbor of Patapsco River. 
Joppa; post village in Harford County on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 
Journey Cake; neck, a strip of land between Island Creek and Chester River in 
Queen Anne County. 
Judith; point in Charles County, projecting into Patuxent River. 
Kaese Mill; village in Garret County. 
Kalmia; village in Harford County. 
Kane; point in Dorchester County, projecting into Honga River. 
Kay wood; point in St. Mary County, projecting into Potomac River. 
Kearney; post village in Garrett County. 
Kedge; straits, a passage between Smith Island and South Marsh in Somerset County. 
Keedysville; town in "Washington County on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad. 
Population, 426. 
Keenan; ridge, a spur of Town Hill Mountain in Allegany County. 
Keene; broads, a small pond at head of St. John Creek in Dorchester County. 
Keene; ditch, a small branch of Honga River in Dorchester County. 
Keener; village in Baltimore County. 
Keeptryst; post village in Washington County. 
Kelso; gap in Backbone Mountain in Garrett County. 
Kelly; point in Worcester County, projecting into Chincoteague Bay. 
Kelly; village in Wicomico County. 
Kemptown; village in Frederick County. 
Kendall; post village in Garrett County. 
Kennedy ville; post village in Kent County on the Philadelphia, Baltimore and 
Washington Railroad. 
Kensington; post village in Montgomery County on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail- 
road. Population, 477. 
Kent; county, organized in 1650, is one of the Eastern Shore counties, and is bounded 
on the east by the State of Delaware. It is a peninsula lying between Sassafras 
River, north, Chesapeake Bay, west, and Chester River, south and southeast. 
The surface is level, though not low, and rolls sufficiently to be well drained by 
the many creeks flowing into its bordering rivers and the bay. The area is 281 
square miles, of which about three-fourths, or 138,947 acres was under cultivation 
in 1900. The county seat is Chestertown, with a population of 3,008 in 1900. The 
average magnetic declination in the county in 1900 was 5° 40' west. The annual 
rainfall commonly ranges between 4 r > and 50 inches, and the mean annual tem- 
perature between 50° and 55°. 
