Explore McDaniel, 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 McDaniel, 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 McDaniel.
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 | McDaniel |
| State | Maryland (MD) |
| County | Talbot County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 38.817617 |
| Longitude | -76.278006 |
| Population | 480 |
| Density | 18.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 21647 |
| Area Code | 410, 443 |
| County Seat | Easton |
McDaniel occupies a flat, low-lying stretch of the Eastern Shore where the horizon feels vast and the sky holds a heavy, silver-gray moisture. It lies 8.3 miles west-northwest of Talbot, MD (from Talbot, MD: bearing 288°T), and is situated 5.4 miles southeast of Romancoke. The landscape is defined by the slow, deliberate movement of water, with the Northwest Branch Harris Creek carving a path through the fields just a mile away, feeding the quiet saturation of the soil. Beyond the immediate reach of the fields, the land holds the memory of ancient marshes, and on the clearest days, one might imagine the distant rise of Bacon Ridge as a faint, jagged smudge against the western sky. Salt air carries inland from the reaches of Tilghman Creek, mingling with the scent of damp earth and late-summer grasses that sway in the persistent, cooling breeze.
Agriculture and the harvest of the water have long provided the rhythm for McDaniel, anchoring a local economy that values the patience of the seasons over the frantic pace of the modern world. Families have worked these fields and harvested the nearby bounty for generations, creating a quiet continuity that persists despite the shifting tides of the regional economy. Residents often find their way toward the green expanse of Witttman Park for a moment of stillness, or look toward the distant silhouette of Hambleton Island, which sits like a dark anchor in the shifting blue. Life in McDaniel remains tethered to the fundamental cycles of the weather and the soil, where the quality of light at dusk turns the marshy edges into a deep, bruised violet, marking the end of another day in a place that asks for little more than careful observation.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of McDaniel, Maryland. Coordinates: 38.817617, -76.278006. 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 McDaniel includes the ZIP code (21647), telephone area code (410, 443), county seat of Talbot County (Easton), 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. |