Explore Chewsville, Maryland, with this interactive street and satellite map.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Chewsville, Maryland. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Maryland or beyond.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Chewsville.
Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.
| City | Chewsville |
| State | Maryland (MD) |
| County | Washington County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 39.642874 |
| Longitude | -77.634992 |
| Population | 261 |
| Density | 120.7 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 21783, 21721 |
| Area Code | 410, 443 |
| County Seat | Hagerstown |
| School District | Washington County Public Schools |
Chewsville anchors itself in the quiet, limestone-rich expanse of Maryland where the horizon is defined by the distant, hazy silhouette of the Blue Ridge Mountains. It lies 4.0 miles east-northeast of Washington, MD (from Washington, MD: bearing 59°T), and is situated 4.5 miles east of Hagerstown. The land slopes with a deliberate, muscular grace, shifting from fertile fields into the shaded, tangled depth of Raven Rock Hollow. Sunlight here possesses a peculiar, translucent quality, catching the limestone dust in the air and turning the late afternoon into a pale, golden suspension. Within the local topography, Antietam Creek carves a persistent, winding path through the soil, offering a cool, steady presence just a short distance away, while the nearby Hagerstown Reservoir holds a mirror to the shifting clouds above. At the center of this rural geometry, Chewsville Community Park serves as a modest, green clearing where the pace of the day is dictated entirely by the lengthening shadows and the cooling breath of the evening wind.
History in Chewsville remains tethered to the slow, methodical labor of the soil, reflecting a heritage defined by the plow and the harvest rather than the frantic pulse of industrial centers. The economy has long drawn its vitality from the surrounding agricultural plains, maintaining a steady, agrarian identity that persists despite the encroachment of modern transit. Residents often find their way toward the rugged, forested reaches of Mont Alto State Forest or seek the cascading, rhythmic motion of Cunningham Falls when the seasons demand a change of scenery. Those who walk the Spiderbush Nature Trail understand that the character of the region is not found in grand monuments, but in the persistent, quiet endurance of the fence lines and the seasoned brickwork of older farmsteads. Life in Chewsville moves with the unforced cadence of a pendulum, indifferent to the noise of the outside world, favoring instead the grounded, reliable habits of a place that has long since learned how to sustain itself.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Chewsville, Maryland. Coordinates: 39.642874, -77.634992. 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 Chewsville includes the ZIP code (21783, 21721), telephone area code (410, 443), county seat of Washington County (Hagerstown), and school district assignment (Washington County Public Schools).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |