Explore Church Creek, 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 Church Creek, 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 Church Creek.
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 | Church Creek |
| State | Maryland (MD) |
| County | Dorchester County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 38.502065 |
| Longitude | -76.152164 |
| Population | 102 |
| Density | 116.9 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 21622 |
| Area Code | 410, 443 |
| County Seat | Cambridge |
| School District | Dorchester County Public Schools |
Church Creek sprawls across a landscape defined by the steady, quiet passage of its namesake waterway, where the land flattens into an expanse of fertile soil and thick, persistent timber. It lies 5.8 miles southwest of Cambridge, MD (from Cambridge, MD: bearing 223°T), and is situated 19.3 miles south of Talbot. The terrain is marked by the presence of Chesapeake Forest Lands, which blankets the surrounding acreage in a quiet, dense canopy that seems to hold the light long after the sun begins to retreat behind the distant, shadowed rise of Hog Range. In the cooler hours of the morning, a thin, translucent mist often clings to the banks of Church Creek, blurring the edges of the fields and lending the air a heavy, damp stillness that feels ancient and undisturbed.
History in Church Creek is measured not by grand monuments, but by the slow, deliberate work of those who have long cultivated the interior plains and managed the timber resources of the region. The economy remains rooted in the land, drawing its strength from agricultural cycles and the careful stewardship of the vast tracts of woodland that define the local character. Life here moves with the measured cadence of the seasons, far removed from the frantic pace of the urban corridor, finding a particular beauty in the way the amber light of dusk illuminates the rows of crops and the quiet, unadorned structures that have anchored this place for generations.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Church Creek, Maryland. Coordinates: 38.502065, -76.152164. 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 Church Creek includes the ZIP code (21622), telephone area code (410, 443), county seat of Dorchester County (Cambridge), and school district assignment (Dorchester 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. |