Georgetown Maryland Map

About Georgetown, Maryland

Georgetown is a locality in Kent County, Maryland, United States. It is a small community with a population of 117. The population density is 30.7 people per km². Georgetown is located at 39.2223°N, 76.1952°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 21620, 21930.

Georgetown commands the flat, salt-misted horizon where the steady pulse of Fairlee Creek carves a path through the low-lying fields. It lies 4.8 miles southwest of Kent, MD (from Kent, MD: bearing 225°T), and is situated 6.9 miles west of Chestertown. The air here carries the damp weight of the tide, drifting inland from the distant expanse of Baynes Cove to settle over the brackish marshes and tall, swaying reeds. Beyond the immediate banks, the land stretches into broad, quiet expanses of farmland, broken only by the shimmering surface of Mendinhall Lake, which mirrors the pale, expansive sky. On the far western horizon, the faint, hazy silhouette of Bacon Ridge provides a jagged contrast to the otherwise level topography, grounding the vista in a permanence that feels ancient and undisturbed.

Georgetown retains the quiet, weathered character of a place that has long measured its days by the seasonal labor of the soil and the water. The local economy remains tethered to the rhythms of these rural traditions, where the proximity to the county’s agricultural roots finds expression in the gatherings at the nearby 4-H Park/County Fairgrounds. Life moves with a deliberate, unadorned pace, occasionally punctuated by the distant sight of Pooles Island rising from the water like a dark, solitary sentinel. History in Georgetown is not found in grand monuments, but in the persistent, honest toil of those who work the land and the way the light catches the graying wood of aging barns as the day fades into the quiet, starlit silence of the Eastern Shore.

About This Georgetown Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Georgetown, Maryland. Coordinates: 39.222331, -76.19523. 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 Georgetown includes the ZIP code (21620, 21930), telephone area code (410, 443), county seat of Kent County (Chestertown), and school district assignment (Kent 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.