Fairview Maryland Map

About Fairview, Maryland

Fairview is a locality in Anne Arundel County, Maryland, United States. It is a small community with a population of 76. The population density is 139.7 people per km². Fairview is located at 39.7111°N, 77.8406°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 21750, 21122, 20866.

Fairview emerges from the low-lying coastal plain where the persistent, tea-colored currents of Rock Creek carve a soft, winding path toward the distant salt air. It lies 1.1 miles southeast of Riviera Beach, MD (from Riviera Beach, MD: bearing 143°T), and is situated 6.9 miles east of Glen Burnie. The landscape remains defined by the brackish reach of the tides, which pull at the marsh grass and mirror the shifting, bruised purples of a Maryland sunset. At the center of the terrain, Yates Pond holds a glassy stillness, its surface a dark slate that captures the flight of herons rising toward the horizon. Beyond the immediate tree line, the muted silhouette of Bacon Ridge provides a distant, hazy anchor to the western sky, while the nearby White Rocks remain a solitary, jagged presence in the water, marking the transition from the firm earth of Fairview to the fluid, gray expanse of Seclude Cove just a few miles beyond.

Fairview maintains a quiet tether to its colonial roots, where the economy has long drawn sustenance from the fertile, damp soil and the seasonal rhythms of the water. Life here moves with the deliberate pace of the tides, evidenced by the humble, unadorned architecture that lines the narrow roads leading toward the Harry And Jeanette Weinberg Park. This protected space serves as a sanctuary for the local flora, preserving a wild, uncultivated character that resists the encroaching pace of the modern world. While the surrounding region remembers the labor of those who worked the docks and the fields, the current atmosphere remains one of enduring, quiet industry, where the scent of damp earth and incoming salt spray marks the passage of each day.

About This Fairview Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Fairview, Maryland. Coordinates: 39.711079, -77.840616. 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 Fairview includes the ZIP code (21750, 21122, 20866), telephone area code (301, 240, 410, 443), county seat of Anne Arundel County (Annapolis), and school district assignment (Washington 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.