Explore Glenwood, 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 Glenwood, 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 Glenwood.
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 | Glenwood |
| State | Maryland (MD) |
| County | Harford County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 38.995666 |
| Longitude | -77.1072 |
| Density | N/A /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 21014, 20814, 21738 |
| Area Code | 301, 240, 410, 443 |
| County Seat | Bel Air |
Glenwood anchors the landscape where the land begins to rise in rhythmic swells, defined by the steady, quiet passage of Bynum Run as it carves a path through the earth. The light here possesses a particular clarity, catching the edges of the trees at dusk and turning the shadows into deep, velvet pools that stretch toward the distant silhouette of Rock Ridge. To the west, the air carries a faint, brackish promise of the coast, though the horizon remains dominated by the dense, tangled depth of Stoney Forest Demonstration Area. Only two miles away, the dark, still surface of Atkisson Reservoir acts as a mirror for the passing clouds, holding a silence that contrasts with the constant, subtle movement of the water nearby.
Glenwood retains a character shaped by the slow accumulation of generations, where the economic pulse is quiet, favoring the persistence of local enterprise over the frantic pace of larger hubs. Life here revolves around the rhythm of the seasons and the shared spaces that bind the residents, such as the Lyn Stacie Getz Creative Playground, which serves as a center for the neighborhood’s younger voices. While the influence of the wider region’s history remains evident in the architecture, the identity of Glenwood is firmly rooted in its own specific soil, far from the influence of the major mountain ranges that define the distant interior. The proximity to Baynes Cove, just fourteen miles off, provides a sense of orientation toward the sea, grounding the inland fields in the broader geography of the tide.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Glenwood, Maryland. Coordinates: 38.995666, -77.1072. 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 Glenwood includes the ZIP code (21014, 20814, 21738), telephone area code (301, 240, 410, 443), county seat of Harford County (Bel Air), and school district assignment.
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. |