| Official Name: | Fishing Creek, Maryland |
| Settlement Type: | Census-designated place |
| Pushpin Map: | Maryland |
| Pushpin Label: | Fishing Creek |
| Pushpin Map Caption: | Location within the State of Maryland |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Dorchester |
| Area Total Km2: | 3.56 |
| Area Land Km2: | 2.73 |
| Area Water Km2: | 0.83 |
| Population As Of: | 2020 |
| Population Total: | 173 |
| Population Density Km2: | 63.26 |
| Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
| Utc Offset: | -5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
| Elevation Ft: | 0 |
| Coordinates: | 38.3222°N -76.2244°W |
| Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
| Postal Code: | 21634 |
| Area Code: | 410, 443, and 667 |
| Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
| Blank Info: | 596534 |
| Unit Pref: | Imperial |
| Area Footnotes: | [1] |
| Area Total Sq Mi: | 1.38 |
| Area Land Sq Mi: | 1.06 |
| Area Water Sq Mi: | 0.32 |
| Population Density Sq Mi: | 163.83 |
Fishing Creek is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Dorchester County, Maryland, United States, on Upper Hoopers Island. As of the 2010 census, the population of Fishing Creek was 163.[2]
It is in area code 410, and ZIP code 21634.
Located on a narrow island served primarily by Hoopers Island Road, Fishing Creek has a restaurant (Old Salty's), a post office, and a general store (Hoopers Island General Store), as well as crabbing businesses which rely on seasonal workers.[3] Local legend posits a number of ghosts in the Fishing Creek area. The village is on the upper island of the three-island chain known as Hoopers Island, about south of the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge and south of Cambridge. Hoopersville, on Middle Hooper Island, is 6miles to the south.
Fishing Creek resident Louie "Rufus" Frase, 43 at the time, was a contestant on the summer 2007 CBS reality television series Pirate Master.