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Madison Maryland Map

Explore Madison, 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.

Interactive Map of Madison, Maryland

How to Use This Madison, Maryland Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Madison, 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 Madison.

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	Madison
State	Maryland (MD)
County	Dorchester County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	38.508928
Longitude	-76.204222
Population	205
Density	24.7 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	21648
Area Code	410, 443
County Seat	Cambridge
School District	Dorchester County Public Schools

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About Madison, Maryland

Madison is a locality in Dorchester County, Maryland, United States. It is a small community with a population of 205. The population density is 24.7 people per km². Madison is located at 38.5089°N, 76.2042°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 21648.

Madison occupies a quiet expanse of land where the horizon is defined by the slow, deliberate rise of fields and the dense, dark borders of woodland. It lies 8.4 miles west-southwest of Cambridge, MD (from Cambridge, MD: bearing 245°T), and is situated 19.2 miles south-southwest of Talbot. A traveler moving through the terrain would note the persistence of the earth, where the soil holds a heavy, dark moisture and the air often carries the scent of damp loam and cooling stone. Only a mile away, the quiet flow of Corsey Creek marks the landscape, its banks shadowed by the thickets of the Chesapeake Forest Lands. Beyond these immediate boundaries, the distant, hazy silhouette of Edgars Ridge provides a jagged anchor to the western view, rising against the sky like a dormant spine. As the sun dips toward the edge of the woods, the light bleeds into a muted, bruised gold, casting long, thin shadows that stretch across the flat, unhurried plains.

Madison maintains an economy tethered to the slow accumulation of agricultural cycles and the modest pace of regional trade. The history of the locality remains visible in the sturdy, weathered architecture of older structures that have stood against the wind for generations, their brick and mortar reflecting a time when labor was measured by the seasons rather than the clock. Life here moves in synchronization with the nearby Hog Range, a basin that seems to hold the heat of the day long after the shadows have lengthened. While Dieffenbach Pond lies seven miles out, providing a secluded point of stillness, the daily rhythm of Madison is found closer to home, in the small, persistent tasks of those who cultivate the land and maintain the quiet order of their lives. It is a place where the passage of time is marked not by grand events, but by the subtle shifting of colors in the fields and the steady, rhythmic persistence of the natural world surrounding it.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Chesapeake Forest Lands (State Resource Management Area) — 0.0 mi, 088° E
Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 1.4 mi, 223° SW · 96k acres
Taylors Island Wma (State Conservation Area) — 4.6 mi, 203° SW
Robinson Neck / Frank M. Ewing Preserve (Conservation Area) — 4.9 mi, 210° SW
Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park (State Park) — 5.4 mi, 139° SE
Spocott Windmill (Attraction) — 5.6 mi, 013° N
Eagle Nesting Site (Viewpoint) — 7.8 mi, 129° SE
Eagle Nest (Attraction) — 8.2 mi, 128° SE
John F. Kennedy (Monument) — 8.2 mi, 058° NE
Dorchester Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 8.3 mi, 058° NE
Neild Museum (Museum) — 8.8 mi, 062° NE
Fishing Bay Wma (State Conservation Area) — 11.2 mi, 149° SE
Otwell Woodland Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 14.1 mi, 018° N
East New Market Heritage Museum (Museum) — 16.2 mi, 067° NE
Potomac Rhythm (Public Artwork) — 17.5 mi, 230° SW

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