Biohazard and Crime Scene Remediation in Madison, MD

Madison is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in western Dorchester County, Maryland, on the state's Eastern Shore.

In the early 19th century the community was a small hamlet known as Tobacco Stick.

Harriet Tubman was born around 1822 just outside the hamlet of Tobacco Stick, and in her youth she lived in her father's cabin nearby, in what is now the Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge.

In 2021 archaeologists announced that they had found the site of the cabin of Ben Ross, Harriet Tubman's father, on land near Madison.

The 2020 census counted 205 residents in Madison, almost unchanged from the 204 residents counted in 2010.

The Census Bureau's 2020-2024 American Community Survey estimated about 56 households in Madison, a survey estimate with a wide margin of error for such a small community.

Madison sits at the south end of Madison Bay, an arm of the Little Choptank River in the Chesapeake Bay estuary system, at an elevation of only about 4 feet above sea level.

Maryland Route 16 passes through Madison, leading northeast about 10 miles to Cambridge, the Dorchester County seat, and southwest about 5 miles to Taylors Island.

The Madison CDP covers about 3.24 square miles, of which about 3.20 square miles is land.

Malone's Church, a local landmark, stands just south of the Madison community.