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Forest Heights Maryland Map

Explore Forest Heights, 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.

Interactive Map of Forest Heights, Maryland

How to Use This Forest Heights, Maryland Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Forest Heights, 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 Forest Heights.

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	Forest Heights
State	Maryland (MD)
County	Prince George's County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	38.803463
Longitude	-77.011969
Population	2,658
Density	620.5 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	20745
Area Code	301, 240
County Seat	Upper Marlboro
School District	Prince George's County Public Schools

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About Forest Heights, Maryland

Forest Heights is a locality in Prince George's County, Maryland, United States. It has a population of approximately 2,658. The population density is 620.5 people per km². Forest Heights is located at 38.8035°N, 77.0120°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Forest Heights is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 20745.

Forest Heights occupies a landscape of quiet, inland elevation where the terrain shifts in subtle folds of earth and pavement. It lies 1.6 miles north-northwest of Glen Burnie, MD (from Glen Burnie, MD: bearing 330°T), and is situated 7.6 miles south-southwest of Baltimore. The air here holds a stillness that lingers between the suburban rows, punctuated by the rhythmic passage of wind through the trees of Forest Heights Neighborhood Park. Beyond the immediate periphery of the streets, the ground descends toward the low, steady flow of Oxon Creek, which drains the moisture from the soil in a slow, persistent crawl. While the distant, hazy silhouette of the Appalachian Mountains marks the far western horizon on the clearest of afternoons, the immediate world remains defined by the mature canopy and the changing light that catches the mid-afternoon haze, turning the suburban grass into a pale, dusty gold.

History in Forest Heights reveals itself in the deliberate geometry of the streets, laid out to accommodate the post-war growth that transformed this landscape into a residential anchor for the region. The economy relies on the steady pulse of nearby professional centers, yet the character of the place is defined by the endurance of its modest, brick-built homes that hold the heat of the sun long after dusk has settled. Life moves with an unpretentious pace, far from the ornamental grandeur of the Capitol Reflecting Pool or the structured activity of the Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway Terminus, focusing instead on the quiet maintenance of porches and lawns. Residents look toward the deep, shadowed woods of Cedarville State Forest for a sense of wilder space, though the true spirit of the locality is found in the everyday intersection of neighbors walking the sidewalks as the evening light fades into a deep, muted indigo.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Oxon Hill Farm (Museum) — 0.2 mi, 115° SE
The Theater (Theatre) — 0.5 mi, 156° SE
MGM Lion (Public Artwork) — 0.6 mi, 155° SE
Oxon Hill Manor Historic Site (Local Park) — 0.6 mi, 153° SE
Bald Eagle (Local Recreation) — 0.9 mi, 004° N
Arts’tination (Gallery) — 1.3 mi, 190° S
Bobby McKey's Dueling Piano Bar (Theatre) — 1.4 mi, 187° S
National Harbor Stonehenge Overlook (Viewpoint) — 1.4 mi, 192° S
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 1.5 mi, 283° W
Ford's Landing (Park) — 1.6 mi, 253° W
Tide Lock Park (Park) — 1.6 mi, 299° NW
Fort Greble (Local Recreation) — 1.6 mi, 356° N
George Washington Memorial Parkway (National Park) — 1.6 mi, 249° W · 2,795 acres
Duvall's Tavern (Monument) — 1.7 mi, 276° W
Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Musuem (Museum) — 1.7 mi, 272° W
World War I-Era Rudder (Attraction) — 1.8 mi, 245° SW
South Corner Boundary Stone (Attraction) — 1.8 mi, 240° SW
Memorial Pool (Attraction) — 2.0 mi, 288° W
Versailles Art & Rugs (Gallery) — 2.1 mi, 274° W
Monroe Ave Bridge (Monument) — 2.4 mi, 303° NW
Plaque marking the establishment of Saint Ignatius Catholic Church in 1849 (Monument) — 2.4 mi, 088° E
African American Heritage Park Sculpture (Attraction) — 2.6 mi, 268° W
National Inventors Hall of Fame and Museum (Museum) — 2.8 mi, 267° W
Springbank Arts Building (Arts Centre) — 3.8 mi, 237° SW
Jeffrey C. Dietze Stadium (Stadium) — 3.9 mi, 237° SW
Rosaryville Sp (State Park) — 10.1 mi, 103° E
Elizabeth Hartwell Mason Neck National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 12.9 mi, 217° SW · 2,944 acres
Patuxent Research Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 17.7 mi, 036° NE · 26k acres

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