Somerset County, Maryland
Somerset County · Princess Anne · Maryland’s southernmost county sits here · Crisfield is not the hall
Princess Anne is the hall. Crisfield is the crab town, not the seat.
Somerset was created in 1666 and named for Lady Mary Somerset. It is Lower Eastern Shore — Maryland’s southernmost county. Princess Anne is the seat. Crisfield is the large water town. Crisfield is not the county government. This is not Somerset County, New Jersey. This is not Somerset County, Pennsylvania. This is not Somerset, UK. This is not Maine’s Somerset (Skowhegan). Smith Island’s Maryland side sits on this map. Salisbury is Wicomico. Snow Hill is Worcester. Virginia (Accomack) is south across the water. Annapolis is the capital of Maryland and sits in Anne Arundel.
Places include Princess Anne, Crisfield, Westover, Deal Island, Fairmount, Marion Station, Ewell, Rhodes Point, and Tylerton. 2020 census: 24,620. University of Maryland Eastern Shore sits in Princess Anne. It is a campus, not the hall. Eastern Correctional Institution is a DPSCS state prison in this county. It is not the county detention center.
This page is Side One for the place. The Sheriff’s job — road patrol on a Lower Shore map — is taught at Office of the Sheriff — Somerset County.
Five commissioners by district. Traditional commission. No County Police.
Somerset remains a commissioner county. Five County Commissioners, elected by district, sit at the County Office Complex, 11916 Somerset Avenue, Princess Anne. There is no County Executive. There is no code-home-rule stamp on this map (Maryland Manual: County Commissioners). There is no Somerset County Police Department. The Sheriff is primary law enforcement. Princess Anne Police and Crisfield Police are municipal. Maryland State Police is the state.
The Sheriff is four years, Article IV § 44, 2026 on the State Board of Elections local-office list. The Governor is also 2026 — a different desk. The Town of Princess Anne is a town clock.
Smith Island's Maryland side sits here. Virginia is south.
The Manokin is this river at Princess Anne. Tangier Sound is west. The Pocomoke is toward Worcester. U.S. 13 and Maryland 413 (Crisfield Highway) are this pavement. Janes Island State Park is this park. This is not Ocean City. This is not a New Jersey county. Staff who paste a Somerville, New Jersey, courthouse onto Prince William Street, or a Skowhegan jail onto Revells Neck, are on the wrong county.
Somerset Avenue holds the elections office
The Board of Elections is at 11916 Somerset Avenue, Princess Anne (mail: P.O. Box 96) — not 7920 Crisfield Highway, not Revells Neck Road, not Crisfield, not Salisbury. A family on Smith Island registers here, not in Virginia. Each municipality has a site. Princess Anne’s town site does not speak for Crisfield. The Sheriff’s listing speaks for patrol, process, and court.
Crisfield Highway patrols. Revells Neck is a county house.
Crime in the unincorporated county — including Deal Island, Fairmount, and Smith Island — is this Sheriff. Crime in Princess Anne or Crisfield is often town police. Jail as a local house is the Somerset County Detention Center at 30474 Revells Neck Road, Westover, under the County Commissioners, with a Warden. Maryland Commission on Correctional Standards lists administrative authority: County Commissioners. It is not this Sheriff’s jailer split. Eastern Correctional Institution is state. Civil process and Circuit Court security at 30512 Prince William Street are the Sheriff. Rights do not change at Tangier Sound. Remedy for Crisfield Police is the City. Remedy for a Sheriff’s paper is the Sheriff. Relief when the Bay comes up at Crisfield is this count first.
Courts, UMES is a campus, Eastern Correctional is the State
A student uses town pages, the county jobs board, or the Sheriff’s official listing. UMES is a campus. It is not the Detention Center. ECI is DPSCS. Outreach that only knows a crab-house photograph is not doing Deal Island.
Lower-Shore snapshot (verify official sources)
- Seat: Princess Anne · Capital of Maryland: Annapolis (Anne Arundel)
- Government: five Commissioners by district · traditional commission · no County Police
- Sheriff: four years · 2026 · road patrol · shop at Westover
- Detention: county house at 30474 Revells Neck Road · not this jailer · ECI is state
- Not Somerset, New Jersey · Not Crisfield as the hall · Not Salisbury · Not Skowhegan
What Princess Anne is not
- Not Somerset County, New Jersey. Not Somerville. Not Bound Brook.
- Not Somerset County, Pennsylvania. Not Somerset, UK. Not Maine’s Somerset.
- Not Crisfield as the hall. Not Salisbury. Not Snow Hill.
- Not Eastern Correctional Institution as this county’s Sheriff.
- Not a campaign flyer.