Explore Tracys Landing, 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 Tracys Landing, 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 Tracys Landing.
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 | Tracys Landing |
| State | Maryland (MD) |
| County | Anne Arundel County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 38.780116 |
| Longitude | -76.595794 |
| Population | 1,200 |
| Density | 35.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 20779 |
| Area Code | 301, 240 |
| County Seat | Annapolis |
Tracys Landing emerges from the flat, marshy lowlands where the persistent flow of Lyons Creek carves a slow, meandering path toward the horizon. It lies 10.1 miles east-southeast of Brock Hall, MD (from Brock Hall, MD: bearing 118°T), and is situated 8.7 miles south-southwest of Mayo. The landscape here is defined by the heavy, humid breath of the Chesapeake region, where the light at dusk turns a bruised, metallic gray over the water. To the west, the distant, hazy silhouette of Bacon Ridge provides a faint anchor to an otherwise expansive, level terrain of silt and brackish soil. Deale Tracys Park occupies the immediate ground, offering a quiet, grass-covered threshold that separates the quiet pulse of the land from the nearby, salt-scented air of Herring Bay View. In the quiet hours, the wind carries the damp, earthy scent of the creek, a reminder that the water here is never far from the surface, shaping the very mud and timber of the shoreline.
Tracys Landing holds the quiet weight of a place that once served as a vital artery for the region’s maritime trade, where the economy was long tethered to the harvest of the bay and the slow movement of goods along the water. While the grand, bustling piers of the past have faded, the rhythm of the locality remains tethered to the tide and the seasonal migration of the watermen. Beyond the immediate banks, the land stretches toward the stillness of Moreland Pond, a quiet basin that reflects the shifting clouds like a dark mirror. Life here moves with the deliberate, unforced pace of a place that has seen the rise and fall of industries, leaving behind a character that is sturdy, unpretentious, and deeply acquainted with the cycles of the seasons. It is a landscape of quiet endurance, where the history of the soil remains etched in the quiet, weathered barns and the persistent, slow-moving current of the creek.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Tracys Landing, Maryland. Coordinates: 38.780116, -76.595794. 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 Tracys Landing includes the ZIP code (20779), telephone area code (301, 240), county seat of Anne Arundel County (Annapolis), 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. |