72 GAZETTEER OF MARYLAND. [bull. 231. 
Solomons; post village in Calvert County. 
Solomons Lump; small island in Kedge Straits in Somerset County. A light-house 
is erected thereon. 
Somerset; county, is the southernmost bay county of the Eastern Shore. It is 
bounded on the north by Wicomico County, east by Worcester County, south by 
Pocomoke River and Sound, and west by Chesapeake Bay. The surface is gen- 
erally level, but sufficiently undulating to afford good drainage. The area is 362 
square miles, of which more than a third, or 82, 650 acres, was under cultivation in 
1900. The population for the same year was 25,193. The county seat is Princess 
Anne. It also contains the town of Crisfield, of 3,165 inhabitants in 1900. The 
average magnetic declination in the county in 1900 was 5° 00'. The annual rain- 
fall commonly ranges between 45 and 50 inches, and the mean-annual tempera- 
ture between 55° and 60°. 
Somerset; creek, a small tributary of Wicomico Creek in Somerset County. 
Sopers; creek, a small branch of Little Bennetts Creek in Montgomery County. 
Sopers; hill in Montgomery County. Elevation, 469. 
Sotterly; point in St. Mary County, projecting into Patuxent River. 
Sotterly; post village in St. Mary County. 
South; branch, a tributary of Bear Creek in Garrett County. 
South.; branch, a tributary of Shingle Landing Prong in Worcester County. 
South.; branch, a tributary of Castleman River in Garrett County. 
South; branch, a tributary of Laurel Run in Garrett County. 
South; fork, a branch of Linganore Creek in Frederick County. 
South; fork, a tributary of Bens Creek in Frederick County. 
South; fork, a tributary of Green Run in Wicomico County. 
South; fork, a tributary of Sand Run in Garrett County. 
South; hammock, small bits of marshy land in Assawoman Bay in Worcester^ 
County. 
South; large marshy island in Somerset County between Holland and Kedge 
straits. 
South; river in Anne Arundel County (lowing into Chesapeake Bay. 
South Branch of Patapsco; river, on boundary between Howard and Carroll 
counties. 
South Cumberland; village in Allegany County. 
Southeast; creek, a small tributary of Chester River in Queen Anne County. 
South River; post village in Anne Arundel County. 
South Tuscarora; creek, a small tributary of Potomac River in Frederick County. 
Southwest; small branch of Western Branch in Prince George County. 
Spaniards; neck, a strip of land lying between Chester and Corsica rivers in Queen 
Anne County. 
Sparks; village in Baltimore County on the Northern Central Railway. 
Sparrow; point in Baltimore County, projecting into Patapsco River. 
Sparrow Point; town in Baltimore County on the Northern Central Railway. 
Spaw; creek, a small tributary to Annapolis Roads in Anne Arundel County. 
Spedden; wharf on Hudson Creek in Dorchester County. 
Speelman Mills; village in Garrett County. 
Spence; cove, small inlet of Newport Bay in Worcester County. 
Spence; post village in Worcester County. 
Spencer; creek, a small tributary of Edge Creek in Talbot County. 
Spencer; creek, a small tributary of Miles River in Talbot County. 
Spencer; small island in Susquehanna River in Harford County. 
Spencers; wharf on Town Creek in St. Mary County. 
Spencerville; post village in Montgomery County. 
