Explore Marbury, 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 Marbury, 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 Marbury.
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 | Marbury |
| State | Maryland (MD) |
| County | Charles County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 38.575397 |
| Longitude | -77.155534 |
| Population | 2,400 |
| Density | 55.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 20658 |
| Area Code | 301, 240 |
| County Seat | La Plata |
Marbury holds a quiet stillness where the land rises in soft, wooded swells, defined by the persistent, rhythmic flow of Marbury Run as it carves through the earth. It lies 4.7 miles northwest of Charles, MD (from Charles, MD: bearing 322°T), and is situated 9.4 miles east-southeast of Dale City. This inland expanse remains largely undisturbed, enveloped by the verdant canopy of the Mattawoman Natural Environment Area, which preserves the humid, shaded character of the local woodlands. The light here filters through a dense mix of deciduous trees, casting long, shifting shadows that turn the forest floor into a mosaic of deep bronze and muted gray during the transition of dusk. Only ninety-six miles to the west, the distant Appalachian Mountains provide a jagged, hazy suggestion of scale against the horizon, though the immediate terrain favors the secluded, sheltered intimacy of thickets and heavy loam rather than the drama of high peaks.
Marbury bears the weight of deep colonial roots that linger in the quietude of its rural tracts, far removed from the clamor of the urban corridors to the north. While the economy once leaned heavily upon the cultivation of the soil and the harvest of timber from the nearby Doncaster State Forest, the contemporary pace of life has settled into a measured, deliberate solitude. Residents find their connection to the land through the protected boundaries of the surrounding natural area, where the air smells perpetually of damp earth and decaying leaves. Though the Maiden Fair Trail offers a path for those who seek to wander through the brush, the true character of Marbury resides in its stubborn preservation of space, a place where the modern world feels like a faint, distant hum compared to the immediate, pressing reality of the woods and the persistent, wandering path of the local creek.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Marbury, Maryland. Coordinates: 38.575397, -77.155534. 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 Marbury includes the ZIP code (20658), telephone area code (301, 240), county seat of Charles County (La Plata), 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. |