Explore Indian Springs, 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 Indian Springs, 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 Indian Springs.
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 | Indian Springs |
| State | Maryland (MD) |
| County | Frederick County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 39.645634 |
| Longitude | -78.007402 |
| Population | 68 |
| Density | 226.3 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 21702, 21711 |
| Area Code | 410, 443 |
| County Seat | Frederick |
| School District | Washington County Public Schools |
Indian Springs occupies a quiet expanse of land where the earth rises in slow, deliberate swells toward the jagged silhouette of the Blue Ridge Mountains on the western horizon. It lies 4.0 miles north-northwest of Frederick, MD (from Frederick, MD: bearing 331°T), and is situated 6.4 miles north of Ballenger Creek. The Little Tuscarora Creek carves a persistent, silver path through the landscape, its current braiding around limestone outcrops before slipping toward the shadows of Clifford Hollow. Here, the air carries a crispness that suggests the nearby elevation, cooling rapidly as the light fades into a bruised, violet twilight. Cannon Bluff Park provides a vast, unmanicured sanctuary where the undergrowth thrives in the damp shade, and the stillness of the afternoon is broken only by the sharp, rhythmic snap of dry twigs underfoot.
Indian Springs retains the quiet, industrious character of a place that has long measured its days by the cycle of the seasons and the slow turning of the soil. Agriculture remains the quiet pulse of the local economy, with fields that have yielded crops for generations spreading out like patchwork quilts under the expansive Maryland sky. While the pace of life maintains a deliberate, measured gravity, the proximity to Culler Lake draws those who seek a moment of reflection by the water’s edge. History in Indian Springs is not found in grand monuments, but in the enduring way the land is worked and the steady persistence of the families who have remained to shepherd it through the changing years.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Indian Springs, Maryland. Coordinates: 39.645634, -78.007402. 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 Indian Springs includes the ZIP code (21702, 21711), telephone area code (410, 443), county seat of Frederick County (Frederick), and school district assignment (Washington 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. |