Explore Graceham, 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 Graceham, 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 Graceham.
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 | Graceham |
| State | Maryland (MD) |
| County | Frederick County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 39.614265 |
| Longitude | -77.381653 |
| Population | 243 |
| Density | 195.9 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 21788 |
| Area Code | 410, 443 |
| County Seat | Frederick |
| School District | Frederick County Public Schools |
Graceham occupies a quiet expanse of the Maryland Piedmont, where the land swells into gentle, weathered rises that look toward the distant, hazy silhouette of the Blue Ridge Mountains. It lies 13.9 miles north of Frederick, MD (from Frederick, MD: bearing 6°T), and is situated 9.0 miles north of Walkersville. Owens Creek carves a thin, limestone-flecked path through the fields a mile to the west, its waters moving with a deliberate, seasonal persistence that shapes the local soil. Beyond the cultivated acreage, the landscape softens into the wooded perimeter of the East End Recreation Area, while the terrain further inland shifts toward the quiet, sheltered depression of Eylers Valley. The light here in the late afternoon possesses a peculiar amber clarity, catching the dust of rural roads and illuminating the way toward the cooling shadows cast by the trees near Frank Bentz Memorial Lake.
Graceham maintains a rhythm dictated by the harvest and the slow, shifting requirements of its agrarian roots, a character forged by early settlers who recognized the utility of the fertile earth. While the daily economy now reaches toward larger regional centers, the remnants of older industry persist in the sturdy architecture and the way the local folk navigate the transition between past and present. The nearby Cunningham Falls and the winding, shaded path of the Cunningham Falls Nature Trail offer a reprieve into the denser, older growth that characterizes the region, while the proximity of Mont Alto State Forest reminds the observer of the vast, timbered reaches that once defined this entire corridor. Life in Graceham moves with a steady, unforced gravity, anchored by the cycles of the seasons and the enduring presence of the land itself.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Graceham, Maryland. Coordinates: 39.614265, -77.381653. 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 Graceham includes the ZIP code (21788), telephone area code (410, 443), county seat of Frederick County (Frederick), and school district assignment (Frederick 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. |