Explore Romancoke, 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 Romancoke, 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 Romancoke.
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 | Romancoke |
| State | Maryland (MD) |
| County | Queen Anne's County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 38.891825 |
| Longitude | -76.36078 |
| Population | 1,855 |
| Density | 564.4 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 21666 |
| Area Code | 410, 443 |
| County Seat | Centreville |
| School District | Queen Annes County Public Schools |
Romancoke occupies a low-lying peninsula where the land yields gracefully to the brackish influence of the Chesapeake tides. It lies 9.3 miles east-southeast of Annapolis Neck, MD (from Annapolis Neck, MD: bearing 112°T), and is situated 7.0 miles south of Stevensville. Cove Creek carves a winding path through the marshy perimeter, its dark, silt-heavy waters mirroring the vast, flat expanse of a sky that often turns the color of a bruised plum at twilight. Beyond the immediate reeds, the landscape stretches toward the horizon, punctuated by the distant, hazy silhouette of Bacon Ridge, while the nearby silhouette of Philpots Islands breaks the surface of the sound like the backs of sleeping leviathans. The air here carries a persistent, saline weight, seasoned by the damp breath of Carter Creek and the quiet, stagnant stillness of Chews Creek, creating a humid atmosphere that clings to the skin even on the clearest days.
Romancoke maintains an enduring connection to the water, a legacy that once relied heavily on the bounty of the estuary and the steady, rhythmic labor of those who worked the oyster beds. Today, the pace of life follows the slow, seasonal migration of the tides, with the South Island Trail serving as a quiet artery for those who wish to traverse the salt-grass flats and observe the seasonal shifts of the marshland. Far removed from the elevation of the distant interior, the local economy has transitioned from its maritime roots toward a quiet, residential tranquility, though the memory of the harvest remains in the weathered piers and the rusted hardware of old docks. The land itself, reaching toward Whitehall Flats, feels less like a fixed boundary and more like a fragile negotiation between the solid earth and the encroaching sea, defining a lifestyle that is measured not by the clock, but by the ebb and flow of the surrounding waters.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Romancoke, Maryland. Coordinates: 38.891825, -76.36078. 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 Romancoke includes the ZIP code (21666), telephone area code (410, 443), county seat of Queen Anne's County (Centreville), and school district assignment (Queen Annes 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. |