Chesapeake Ranch Estates-Drum Point was a census-designated place in Calvert County, Maryland, for the 2000 United States Census, when it had a population of 11, 503.

For the 2010 census the area was split into the CDPs of Chesapeake Ranch Estates and Drum Point.

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The population was officially 1, 835 at the 2010 census, although residents of the Chesapeake Ranch Estates-Drum Point community also use the Lusby zip code designation, making Lusby in fact a much larger community.

A large housing development called Chesapeake Ranch Estates is nearby, as well as the tourist resort town of Solomons.

Several new roads have either been built or are in planning stages in order to ease traffic congestion to and from the Chesapeake Ranch Estates-Drum Point communities.

There is also a private air field owned and operated by the Chesapeake Ranch Estates and Drum Point communities.

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The Chesapeake Ranch Estates ( CRE ), also known locally as the Ranch Club, is located in Lusby, Maryland, in southern Calvert County.

CRE was founded in 1958 as is governed by a homeowners ' association, which is officially called the " Property Owner's Association of the Chesapeake Ranch Estates " ( POACRE ).

This matter was the subject of litigation in the case of Hanson vs Calvert County, the case is settled, Calvert County and its co defendant, Property Owners of Chesapeake Ranch Estates won the case.

It was alleged in this case that in 1989 the founders of POACRE illegally co-opted the powers of the developer ( Chesapeake Ranch Club, Inc .) as Declarant of the covenants.

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The Cove Point LNG Terminal is located near Lusby, Maryland, on the western shore of the Chesapeake Bay.

The Chesapeake Bay Bridge crosses the bay in Maryland from Sandy Point ( near Annapolis ) to Kent Island ; and the Chesapeake Bay Bridge-Tunnel in Virginia connects Virginia Beach to Cape Charles.

In the 1632 Charter of Maryland, King Charles I of England granted " all that Part of the Peninsula, or Chersonese, lying in the Parts of America, between the Ocean on the East and the Bay of Chesapeake on the West, divided from the Residue thereof by a Right Line drawn from the Promontory, or Head-Land, called Watkin's Point, situate upon the Bay aforesaid, near the river Wigloo, on the West, unto the main Ocean on the East ; and between that Boundary on the South, unto that Part of the Bay of Delaware on the North, which lieth under the Fortieth Degree of North Latitude from the Equinoctial, where New England is terminated " to Cæcilius Calvert, 2nd Baron Baltimore as the colony of Maryland.

Later surveys authorized by Baltimore on the Eastern Shore of the Chesapeake indicated that the southern boundary would continue across the peninsula at the mouth of the Pocomoke River marked on the north shore by a rock outcropping labelled as " Watkins ' Point ".

It is located at Gloucester Point along what would be the county's beach, taking samples and measurements for the Chesapeake Bay, and putting specimens on display.

Virginia Beach has many distinctive communities and neighborhoods within its boundaries, including: Acredale, Alanton, Aragona Village, Arrowhead, Bay Colony, Bayside, Blackwater, Brigadoon, Brighton on the Bay, Buckner Farms, Carolanne Farm, Castleton, Chesapeake Beach, College Park, Croatan Beach, Glenwood, Great Neck, Green Run, Greenwich, Heritage Park, Hilltop, Indian Lakes, Indian River Plantation, Kempsville, Kings Grant, Lago Mar, Landstown, Little Neck, London Bridge, Lynnhaven, Magic Hollow, Middle Plantation, Munden, the North End, Oceana, Ocean Lakes, Ocean Park, Oceanfront, Old Beach, Pembroke Manor, Pembroke Meadows, Pembroke Shores, Pine Meadows, Princess Anne, Pungo, Redwing, Salem, Sandbridge, Seatack, Thalia, Strawbridge, Thalia Shores, Thoroughgood, Windsor Woods, and Witchduck Point.

Sandy Point State Park is approximately two or three miles ( 5 km ) east of Arnold proper and includes a beach on the Chesapeake Bay in proximity to the Chesapeake Bay Bridge and the Sandy Point Lighthouse.

Elevations range from sea level on the shore of the Chesapeake Bay to approximately above sea level along the northern reaches of Dundalk Avenue and North Point Boulevard.

There is a public golf course, Chesapeake Hills Golf Course near Cove Point Park.

Places of note in the Lusby area include the Cove Point Lighthouse on the Chesapeake Bay and Calvert Cliffs State Park.

The end is set at a major extinction event called the Grande Coupure ( the " Great Break " in continuity ) or the Eocene – Oligocene extinction event, which may be related to the impact of one or more large bolides in Siberia and in what is now Chesapeake Bay.

However, the city is connected to downtown Washington, D. C. ( some away ) by a continuous bike / running trail through the Alleghenies and along the Potomac Valley, known as the Great Allegheny Passage and Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Towpath.

* 1781 – Battle of the Chesapeake in the American Revolutionary War: the British Navy is repelled by the French Navy, contributing to the British surrender at Yorktown.

Influenced by the Gulf Stream, coastal weather is subject to hurricanes, most pronouncedly near the mouth of Chesapeake Bay.

The Chesapeake Bay is host to many species, including blue crabs, clams, oysters, and rockfish ( also known as striped bass ).

The Chesapeake Bay, while not a national park, is protected by both state and federal legislation, and the jointly run Chesapeake Bay Program which conducts restoration on the bay and its watershed.

, Virginia Beach is the most populous city in the Commonwealth, with Norfolk and Chesapeake second and third, respectively.

One of the largest breeding areas is the Chesapeake Bay, where populations from Chesapeake and Delaware bays have intermingled.

It occupies the Calvert Peninsula which is bordered on the east by the Chesapeake Bay and on the west by the Patuxent River.

A branch of the United States Naval Research Laboratory is located at Chesapeake Beach.

Oakland is situated only miles from the source of the Potomac River, which flows directly into the Chesapeake Bay.

Beyond the National Road's eastern terminus at Cumberland and toward the Atlantic coast, a series of private turnpikes were completed in 1824, connecting the National Road ( Pike ) with Baltimore, Maryland and its port on Chesapeake Bay ; these feeder routes formed what is referred to as an eastern extension of the National Road.

The western border is defined by the lower reaches of the Susquehanna River and the northernmost coves, flats and tributaries of the Chesapeake Bay.

The lowest elevation is sea level along the Chesapeake Bay.

The county is bisected from east to west by the Chesapeake and Delaware Canal, which connects the Delaware River to the Chesapeake Bay by way of the Elk River.

The lowest elevation is sea level along the Chesapeake Bay.

Chesapeake Energy Arena in downtown is the large multipurpose arena which hosts concerts, NHL exhibition games, and many of the city's pro sports teams.

To avoid the takeover, CCC forged a deal with CDC lending them the money to purchase control in CCC instead, and " That is how a computer company came to own a fleet of fishing boats in the Chesapeake Bay.

It is bordered by the Choptank River to the north, Talbot County to the northwest, Caroline County to the northeast, Wicomico County to the southeast, Sussex County, Delaware, to the east, and the Chesapeake Bay to the west.

The Chesapeake Bay ( ) is the largest estuary in the United States.