Explore Wye Mills, 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 Wye Mills, 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 Wye Mills.
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 | Wye Mills |
| State | Maryland (MD) |
| County | Talbot County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 38.941224 |
| Longitude | -76.0805 |
| Population | 480 |
| Density | 18.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 21679 |
| Area Code | 410, 443 |
| County Seat | Easton |
Wye Mills occupies a flat, verdant expanse of the Eastern Shore where the air hangs heavy with the scent of damp earth and ripening crops. It lies 6.5 miles south-southeast of Queen Annes, MD (from Queen Annes, MD: bearing 155°T), and is situated 7.0 miles south of Centreville. The Wye East River winds sluggishly through the landscape, its dark, reflective surface mirroring the ancient hardwoods that crowd the banks. Beside the flow, the waters of Wye Mills Community Lake remain perfectly still, holding the amber light of late afternoon in a glassy, unbroken tension. Far to the west, the distant shadow of Bacon Ridge offers a faint, jagged suggestion of elevation on the horizon, though the immediate terrain remains defined by the persistent, level patience of the plains. Travelers might notice how the sunlight here does not merely illuminate the fields, but seems to saturate the very fiber of the tall grasses, turning the afternoon golden and thick.
Wye Mills preserves a quiet, functional history grounded in the mechanics of early industry, where the old stone structures once hummed with the labor of grain production. The rhythm of daily life follows the slow, deliberate pace of agricultural cycles, with the Wye Mills Fma Pfa providing a managed sanctuary for local wildlife amidst the surrounding cultivated plots. While the reach of the modern world extends toward the distant urban centers, the local character remains defined by a stubborn loyalty to tradition and the quiet maintenance of colonial-era architecture. There is a distinct, unhurried gravity to the way the shadows lengthen across the timber frames, a reminder that Wye Mills has long served as a steady, enduring anchor for those who work the soil and harvest the bounty of these inland acres.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Wye Mills, Maryland. Coordinates: 38.941224, -76.0805. 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 Wye Mills includes the ZIP code (21679), 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. |