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Secretary Maryland Map

Explore Secretary, 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 Secretary, Maryland

How to Use This Secretary, Maryland Map

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

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

Latitude	38.609284
Longitude	-75.947437
Population	472
Density	626.3 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	21664
Area Code	410, 443
County Seat	Cambridge
School District	Dorchester County Public Schools

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About Secretary, Maryland

Secretary is a locality in Dorchester County, Maryland, United States. It is a small community with a population of 472. The population density is 626.3 people per km². Secretary is located at 38.6093°N, 75.9474°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Secretary is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 21664.

Secretary commands a quiet reach of land where the Warwick River drifts with a heavy, deliberate grace past the edges of the fields. It lies 7.8 miles east-northeast of Cambridge, MD (from Cambridge, MD: bearing 66°T), and is situated 5.1 miles west-southwest of Hurlock. The landscape surrounding Secretary is defined by the flat, fertile expanse of the interior, where the horizon remains wide and unobstructed by the distant, hazy shadow of Edgars Ridge. In the stillness of late afternoon, the light settles over the earth like thick, amber resin, illuminating the dark soil that has long sustained the local agricultural rhythm. Residents find a familiar stillness in the grounds of Secretary Park, a green refuge that anchors the center of the locality, while the deeper silences of the woods wait eleven miles away at Seth State Forest. Far from the frantic pace of larger hubs, the character of the place is forged in the slow transition of seasons, where the air holds a dry, earthy weight that speaks of long, inland summers and fields turning to stubble under a pale, wide sky.

The history of Secretary is inscribed in the steady endurance of its architecture and the modest, persistent industry of those who have worked this soil for generations. Where once the economy relied heavily on the output of the land, today the locality maintains a deliberate pace, favoring the preservation of its colonial-era legacy over the clamor of rapid expansion. There is a particular dignity in the way the local infrastructure respects the contours of the Warwick River, a waterway that serves as a silent witness to the quietude of daily life. While the influence of larger regional centers is felt in the commerce of the wider area, Secretary retains a distinct, self-contained identity, marked by the simple, unadorned beauty of its historic buildings and the way the shadows lengthen across the roads at dusk. Whether one walks toward the managed green of Secretary Park or observes the slow progress of the river, the impression remains of a place that values its own internal clock above all else.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Secretary Park (Local Park) — 0.1 mi, 047° NE
Secretary City Park (Local Park) — 0.2 mi, 062° NE
East New Market Heritage Museum (Museum) — 1.3 mi, 122° SE
Chesapeake Forest Lands (State Resource Management Area) — 4.0 mi, 139° SE
Linkwood Wma (State Conservation Area) — 4.5 mi, 170° S
Dorchester Pond Preserve (Conservation Area) — 5.2 mi, 134° SE
Choptank River Fishing Pier State Park (State Park) — 5.3 mi, 256° W
Neild Museum (Museum) — 6.8 mi, 245° SW
Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 6.9 mi, 098° E · 96k acres
John S. Ayton Tree Nursery (State Resource Management Area) — 7.1 mi, 029° NE
Dorchester Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 7.3 mi, 250° W
John F. Kennedy (Monument) — 7.4 mi, 250° W
Choptank Wetlands Preserve - Hog Neck (Conservation Area) — 8.2 mi, 340° N
Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad State Park (State Park) — 10.7 mi, 198° S
Otwell Woodland Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 11.5 mi, 304° NW
Spocott Windmill (Attraction) — 12.7 mi, 264° W
Fishing Bay Wma (State Conservation Area) — 13.3 mi, 188° S
Historical Society of Talbot County Museum (Museum) — 13.4 mi, 329° NW
Eagle Nest (Attraction) — 14.1 mi, 212° SW
Eagle Nesting Site (Viewpoint) — 14.3 mi, 214° SW
Caroline County Shooting Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 16.4 mi, 014° N
William Still Center Families Divided & United Marker (Monument) — 16.6 mi, 021° N
Saint Marys Square Museum (Museum) — 19.1 mi, 309° NW
Chesapeake Bay Maritime Museum (Museum) — 19.3 mi, 310° NW
Frederick Douglass (Monument) — 19.3 mi, 310° NW
Cardinal Circle (Theatre) — 19.7 mi, 332° NW
Barred Owl Circle (Theatre) — 19.8 mi, 332° NW
Military Exhib Site (Registered Battlefield) — 20.5 mi, 099° E
Naylor Mill Forest Trail (Attraction) — 23.6 mi, 125° SE
Eastern Neck National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 31.0 mi, 334° NW · 6,282 acres

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