Explore Sunderland, 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 Sunderland, 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 Sunderland.
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 | Sunderland |
| State | Maryland (MD) |
| County | Calvert County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 38.67123 |
| Longitude | -76.598015 |
| Population | 2,800 |
| Density | 55.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 20689 |
| Area Code | 301, 240 |
| County Seat | Prince Frederick |
Sunderland emerges from the landscape as a quiet assembly of fields and woodlands, defined by the steady, inland character of the Maryland countryside. It lies 12.5 miles southeast of Marlton, MD (from Marlton, MD: bearing 124°T), and is situated 3.6 miles west-southwest of Chesapeake Beach. The terrain here holds a subtle tension between the flat, open expanses of agrarian plots and the sudden, shadowed depth of Chew Creek, which carves a narrow, winding path through the soil just a mile from the center. Beyond the immediate canopy, the horizon is occasionally anchored by the distant, hazy silhouette of Bacon Ridge, a faint reminder of the earth’s greater reach far to the west. On humid afternoons, the air grows heavy and still, pressing against the broad leaves of local timber and the grasses that fringe the quiet waters of Hutchins Pond, where the light turns a bruised, singular gold as the sun retreats behind the tree line.
Sunderland retains a modest, functional rhythm, shaped by generations of families who have worked the surrounding acreage and maintained the small-scale commerce that sustains the local economy. The history of the area is etched not in grand monuments, but in the enduring utility of the land and the preservation of its rural quietude, far removed from the frantic pace of the larger metropolitan corridors. Residents often venture toward Cedarville State Forest for the solitude of deeper woods, or observe the seasonal shifts that dictate the local harvest cycles. Life in Sunderland moves with a deliberate, unadorned grace, where the quiet persistence of the work week gives way to a stillness that settles over the fields long before the stars appear, marking a place where the passage of time is measured by the growth of the crops and the steady flow of the creek.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Sunderland, Maryland. Coordinates: 38.67123, -76.598015. 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 Sunderland includes the ZIP code (20689), telephone area code (301, 240), county seat of Calvert County (Prince Frederick), 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. |