Explore Glenmont, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Glenmont, 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 Glenmont.
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 | Glenmont |
| State | Maryland (MD) |
| County | Baltimore County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 39.070413 |
| Longitude | -77.046628 |
| Population | 16,710 |
| Density | 2304.2 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 21045, 20906 |
| Area Code | 240, 301, 410, 443 |
| County Seat | Towson |
| School District | Montgomery County Public Schools |
Glenmont reveals itself through a landscape defined by subtle transitions, where the earth yields to the quiet presence of Herring Run as it carves a path through the terrain. It lies 1.6 miles southeast of Towson, MD (from Towson, MD: bearing 141°T), and is situated 6.6 miles north-northeast of Baltimore. The atmosphere here carries a faint, brackish weight, a reminder that the tides of Baynes Cove exert their influence upon the air from eleven miles away, softening the edges of the afternoon light. Within the immediate borders of the locality, the greenery of Glendale Park offers a stillness that contrasts with the distant, hazy silhouette of Chestnut Ridge marking the horizon. Those who walk the land often find the soil heavy and clay-rich, grounding the senses in a geography that feels both ancient and persistent, far removed from the sharp drama of higher elevations.
History in Glenmont remains quiet, marked less by grand monuments than by the steady, pragmatic evolution of its economy and the slow reclamation of the land near Limekiln Hollow. While Cochrans Pond serves as a localized anchor for the quiet rhythm of the day, the economic life of the people has long been tied to the functional expansion of infrastructure and the service of a growing, industrious population. The character of the place is marked by a deliberate, unadorned endurance, where the proximity to the coast and the inland basins creates a unique intersection of environments. Residents move through their days with an awareness of these natural boundaries, finding a singular beauty in the way the morning mist clings to the low-lying fields before the sun fully asserts itself over the quiet streets.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Glenmont, Maryland. Coordinates: 39.070413, -77.046628. 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 Glenmont includes the ZIP code (21045, 20906), telephone area code (240, 301, 410, 443), county seat of Baltimore County (Towson), and school district assignment (Montgomery County Public Schools).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |