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Friendship Heights Maryland Map

Explore Friendship 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 Friendship Heights, Maryland

How to Use This Friendship Heights, Maryland Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Friendship 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 Friendship 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	Friendship Heights
State	Maryland (MD)
County	Montgomery County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	39.551219
Longitude	-76.252178
Population	4,800
Density	2800.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	21028, 20815
Area Code	240, 301
County Seat	Rockville

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About Friendship Heights, Maryland

Friendship Heights is a locality in Montgomery County, Maryland, United States. It has a population of approximately 4,800. The population density is 2800.0 people per km². Friendship Heights is located at 39.5512°N, 76.2522°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 21028, 20815.

Friendship Heights occupies a high, firm plateau where the urban density of the capital softens into the managed greenery of established residential streets. It lies 1.3 miles south-southeast of Bethesda, MD (from Bethesda, MD: bearing 153°T), and is situated 5.5 miles north-northwest of Washington. The land here slopes gently toward the Little Falls Branch, a quiet watercourse that threads through the landscape, carrying the runoff of a hundred suburban lawns toward the larger basins of the region. Sunlight often catches the glass of high-rise structures before settling into the long shadows of Hubert Humphrey Friendship Park, where the afternoon air feels heavy with the scent of mown grass and cooling pavement. Far to the west, the distant, hazy blue of the Appalachian Mountains suggests a rugged horizon that never quite reaches the manicured order of these local avenues.

Commerce and history have long defined the character of Friendship Heights, evolving from a crossroads of transit into a concentrated center of retail and professional life. The economy hums with the steady movement of commuters and shoppers, creating a pulse that contrasts with the quiet residential borders that sit just a short distance from the activity of the main thoroughfares. Residents often find themselves navigating a space that feels both domestic and metropolitan, a place where the proximity of the Dalecarlia Reservoir provides a silent, steady presence in the local geography. Whether walking toward the nearby Rock Creek Park Orienteering Course or watching the evening light dim over the Soapstone Valley, the people of Friendship Heights maintain a rhythmic, orderly existence that respects the firm, unyielding geography of the inland terrain.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Schucks Road Regional Sports Complex (undeveloped) (Local Park) — 1.5 mi, 261° W
Medical Hall (Monument) — 1.9 mi, 279° W
Stoney Demonstration Sf (State Resource Management Area) — 2.0 mi, 184° S
Harford Community College - Joppa Hall (Gallery) — 2.0 mi, 296° NW
Legends of the Fog (Theme Park) — 2.5 mi, 080° E
Tudor Hall (Monument) — 2.6 mi, 268° W
Cedar Lane Park (Local Park) — 3.2 mi, 198° S
Cal, Sr.'s Yard (Stadium) — 3.7 mi, 110° E
State of Maryland (Monument) — 3.9 mi, 164° S
Palmer Sp (State Park) — 4.0 mi, 337° NW
Bynum Run Pond Fma Pfa (State Conservation Area) — 4.2 mi, 260° W
Horizon Cinemas (Cinema) — 4.3 mi, 119° SE
Berrilicious (HoH) (Public Artwork) — 4.8 mi, 258° W
Hopkins Branch Wma (State Conservation Area) — 5.1 mi, 009° N
Harford Artists Gallery (Gallery) — 5.3 mi, 260° W
Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve - Maryland (Marine Protected Area) — 6.7 mi, 187° S
Steppingstone Farm Museum (Museum) — 7.0 mi, 060° NE
Arts by the Bay Gallery (Gallery) — 8.6 mi, 090° E
Gunpowder Falls Sp (State Park) — 8.7 mi, 232° SW
Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 8.7 mi, 084° E · 96k acres
Timmons Lodge Ruins (Historic Ruins) — 8.9 mi, 001° N
Ice Storage (Historic Ruins) — 9.0 mi, 081° E
Oest Campfire Amphitheater (Theatre) — 9.1 mi, 356° N
Edgewood Middle School Planetarium (Museum) — 9.1 mi, 192° S
Perryville Railroad Museum (Museum) — 9.5 mi, 087° E
Susquehanna National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 9.8 mi, 113° SE · 3 acres
Stoneywood Nature Center (Nature Reserve) — 10.1 mi, 303° NW
Deer Creek Rapids @ Rocks (Class III) (Attraction) — 10.3 mi, 305° NW
C&D Canal Wildlife Area (State Wilderness) — 25.2 mi, 091° E

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