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Friendship Maryland Map

Explore Friendship, 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 Friendship, Maryland

How to Use This Friendship, Maryland Map

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

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	Friendship
State	Maryland (MD)
County	Frederick County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	38.735845
Longitude	-76.58782
Population	384
Density	82.6 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	20872, 21780, 21811, 20758
Area Code	410, 443, 301, 240
County Seat	Frederick
School District	Anne Arundel County Public Schools

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About Friendship, Maryland

Friendship is a locality in Frederick County, Maryland, United States. It is a small community with a population of 384. The population density is 82.6 people per km². Friendship is located at 38.7358°N, 76.5878°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 20872, 21780, 21811.

Friendship anchors itself within a landscape defined by the persistent, rhythmic flow of Owens Creek, which carves a path through the quiet earth just a stone’s throw from the center. It lies 14.2 miles east-northeast of Washington, MD (from Washington, MD: bearing 76°T), and is situated 9.8 miles southeast of Waynesboro. Beyond the immediate banks, the terrain rises into the gentle, undulating geography of the Piedmont, where the distant silhouettes of the Blue Ridge Mountains frame the horizon in shades of bruised violet and charcoal. The air here carries the scent of damp loam and cooling stone, particularly as dusk settles over Eylers Valley, casting long, sharp shadows that stretch toward the dense, emerald corridors of Mont Alto State Forest. Visitors often find their way to the High Rock Nature Trail to trace the ridges, while the nearby rush of Cunningham Falls provides a constant, subterranean hum that defines the acoustic character of the woods.

Friendship retains the quiet, deliberate pace of an inland settlement that has long looked toward its own fields and timber rather than the distant, salt-heavy winds of the coast. The local economy persists in a modest equilibrium, sustained by a stewardship of the land that dates back to the early days of agrarian expansion in Maryland. Life in Friendship is measured by the seasonal shifts in the canopy and the maintenance of the rural thoroughfares, such as those maintained by the MD State Highway Administration 1. Whether one is passing by the still, reflective surface of Hunting Creek Lake or observing the seasonal harvest, there is a profound sense of continuity in how the day unfolds. It is a place where the history of the soil is written in the fences and the fallow fields, a geography that demands little more than the quiet attention of those who walk its paths.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Friendship Pond Park (Local Park) — 0.1 mi, 356° N
Hutchins Pond (Local Recreation) — 2.5 mi, 200° S
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 3.5 mi, 124° SE
Sunrise Garden (Local Recreation) — 3.6 mi, 125° SE
Beach On My Mind (Public Artwork) — 3.7 mi, 125° SE
Merkle Natural Resource Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 4.9 mi, 269° W
Merkle Nrma (State Park) — 4.9 mi, 269° W
Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve - Maryland (Marine Protected Area) — 5.9 mi, 298° NW
Spice Creek Nrma (State Park) — 6.3 mi, 248° W
Glendening Walking Trails at Jug Bay Nature Preserve (Attraction) — 7.1 mi, 304° NW
Bowen Wma (State Conservation Area) — 9.2 mi, 211° SW
Prince George's Equestrian Center (Attraction) — 10.0 mi, 301° NW
World War I Monument (Monument) — 10.4 mi, 303° NW
Archbishop John Carroll (Monument) — 10.4 mi, 302° NW
Wild Kid Acres (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 12.1 mi, 014° N
Creative Celebrations (Arts Centre) — 12.7 mi, 181° S
Kocen Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 13.8 mi, 179° S
Calvart Gallery (Gallery) — 13.8 mi, 180° S
River Deck (Viewpoint) — 14.5 mi, 010° N
National Capital Radio & Television Museum (Museum) — 15.3 mi, 329° NW
Grumann F6F Hellcat (Monument) — 15.5 mi, 290° W
Overdue Recognition Art Gallery (Gallery) — 16.5 mi, 331° NW
Landmark Theatres (Cinema) — 16.7 mi, 008° N
Nancy Hammond Editions (Gallery) — 17.1 mi, 009° N
Banneker-Douglass Museum of Afro-American Life and History (Museum) — 17.4 mi, 017° N
Victualling Warehouse Maritime Museum (Museum) — 17.5 mi, 018° N
AMC Annapolis Mall 11 (Cinema) — 17.6 mi, 007° N
Patuxent Research Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 22.5 mi, 337° NW · 26k acres
Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 24.2 mi, 136° SE · 96k acres
George Washington Memorial Parkway (National Park) — 24.5 mi, 269° W · 2,795 acres

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