Cecilton is a town in Cecil County, Maryland, United States.

[3] According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.46 square miles (1.19 km2), all land.

Maryland Route 213 is the main north-south highway serving the town, following Bohemia Avenue through the center of the community.

To the north, MD 213 connects Cecilton to Chesapeake City and Elkton, while heading south, it passes though Galena and Chestertown, among other communities.

The other state highway serving Cecilton is Maryland Route 282, which follows Main Street on an east-west path through town.

Cecil Transit operates a Demand Response route twice a month between Cecilton and Middletown, Delaware, providing residents of southern Cecil County access to shopping and healthcare in Middletown.

[11] Amish families moved to the area from Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, because of increasing costs and the declining amount of farmland there.

[12] David Davis, a close adviser to President Abraham Lincoln, was born a few miles outside Cecilton, on March 9, 1815.

He was appointed to the Supreme Court in 1862 and served until 1877, when he resigned to become the U.S. senator from Illinois.