Butlertown Maryland Map

About Butlertown, Maryland

Butlertown is a locality in Kent County, Maryland, United States. It is a small community with a population of 520. The population density is 245.4 people per km². Butlertown is located at 39.2826°N, 76.1044°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 21678.

Butlertown occupies a low, level stretch of the Eastern Shore where the air hangs heavy with the brackish scent of the tide. It lies 1.7 miles east-northeast of Kent, MD (from Kent, MD: bearing 62°T), and is situated 5.5 miles north-northwest of Chestertown. Churn Creek carves a dark, serpentine path through the surrounding fields, its waters moving with a deliberate, sluggish weight that mirrors the stillness of the landscape. Beyond the immediate banks, the terrain flattens into expansive, open tracts that hold the afternoon light in a thin, pale gold, illuminating the edges of Worton Park just a short distance away. To the west, the horizon remains stubbornly flat, lacking the jagged interference of distant summits like Rock Ridge, which remains a mere ghost of a memory far beyond the reach of the local weather.

Butlertown carries the quiet gravity of a place defined by its proximity to the water, where the tides of Jacks Cove exert a subtle, rhythmic pull on the consciousness of the residents. The economy has long been anchored to the soil and the water, tracing its lineage back to the labor of those who cleared the timber and worked the surrounding acreage long before the modern era. While Millbrook Lake offers a localized stillness a few miles out, the character of the region remains tied to the cycles of harvest and the slow, steady maintenance of a rural life that resists the quickening pace of the outside world. The legacy of the area is not found in grand monuments, but in the enduring resilience of its people and the consistent, unassuming geometry of the fields that stretch toward the distant marsh.

About This Butlertown Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Butlertown, Maryland. Coordinates: 39.28261, -76.104393. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Butlertown includes the ZIP code (21678), telephone area code (410, 443), county seat of Kent County (Chestertown), and school district assignment (Kent County Public Schools).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.