Explore Hyattstown, 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 Hyattstown, 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 Hyattstown.
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 | Hyattstown |
| State | Maryland (MD) |
| County | Montgomery County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 39.282882 |
| Longitude | -77.314707 |
| Population | 480 |
| Density | 18.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 20871 |
| Area Code | 301, 240 |
| County Seat | Rockville |
Hyattstown emerges from the quiet intersection of history and the Piedmont landscape, defined by the steady, unassuming presence of the Little Bennett Creek. It lies 2.0 miles south-southwest of Green Valley, MD (from Green Valley, MD: bearing 207°T), and is situated 9.7 miles north-northwest of Montgomery. The topography here leans into the soft, rhythmic rise and fall of the earth, creating a terrain that feels both ancient and settled. To the west, the distant, hazy silhouette of the Blue Ridge Mountains anchors the horizon, providing a permanent backdrop to the wooded expanse of Litttle Bennett Regional Park, which envelopes the landscape with a dense, verdant shroud. The light in this corridor holds a particular, amber clarity during the late afternoon, catching the rustling leaves of oak and hickory before settling over the cool, shaded banks of the creek. Two miles away, the quiet surface of Chevy Chase Lake reflects the changing canopy, serving as a tranquil mirror to the surrounding inland woods.
Hyattstown preserves the vestigial character of a nineteenth-century road stop, where the original architecture still speaks to its past as a vital thoroughfare for travelers moving between the rural interior and the burgeoning markets to the south. The local economy, once tethered to the agrarian rhythms of milling and trade, has softened into a quieter residential life, though the structural bones of the early buildings remain as sturdy reminders of a time when the road dictated the pace of commerce. There is a perceptible dignity in the way Hyattstown maintains its scale, resisting the frantic sprawl of modernity while keeping its focus on the immediate, tangible world of the creek bed and the forest edge. Life here unfolds with a deliberate, measured cadence, where the primary concerns are the shifting colors of the seasons and the preservation of a landscape that has long provided shelter to those who prefer the stillness of the interior to the restlessness of elsewhere.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Hyattstown, Maryland. Coordinates: 39.282882, -77.314707. 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 Hyattstown includes the ZIP code (20871), telephone area code (301, 240), county seat of Montgomery County (Rockville), 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. |