Yarrowsburg Maryland Map

About Yarrowsburg, Maryland

Yarrowsburg is a locality in Washington County, Maryland, United States. It is a small community with a population of 112. The population density is 190.5 people per km². Yarrowsburg is located at 39.3745°N, 77.6836°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 21758.

Yarrowsburg occupies a landscape defined by the patient, deliberate transitions of the Piedmont as it yields to the rising shadows of the Blue Ridge Mountains in the distance. It lies 13.3 miles west of Ballenger Creek, MD (from Ballenger Creek, MD: bearing 271°T), and is situated 5.1 miles northwest of Brunswick. Israel Creek carves a quiet, persistent path just a mile away, its waters moving through the low ground with a clarity that reflects the gray, shifting light of late afternoon. To the north, the terrain dips into the quiet seclusion of Frog Hollow, where the air holds a cooler, heavier moisture than the sun-drenched fields above. Travelers often find their way toward the Weverton-Roxbury Rail Trail, a corridor that traces the old iron arteries of the region and offers a vantage point over the stillness of the surrounding woods.

Yarrowsburg maintains a character built upon the endurance of those who first cleared these thickets and worked the stubborn, clay-heavy earth. The local economy has long been tethered to the rhythms of the land, shifting from the early demands of small-scale agriculture to a quieter, modern existence that favors the preservation of its colonial-era footprint. Beyond the immediate reach of the fields, Lowry Lake lies five miles distant, a silent basin that anchors the local geography and provides a measure of seasonal calm for the residents. Life here proceeds without the urgency found in more crowded corridors, defined instead by the maintenance of century-old fences and the steady, predictable cycles of a place that values its own quiet history above the clamor of the wider world.

About This Yarrowsburg Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Yarrowsburg, Maryland. Coordinates: 39.374545, -77.683603. 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 Yarrowsburg includes the ZIP code (21758), telephone area code (410, 443), county seat of Washington County (Hagerstown), and school district assignment (Washington County Public Schools).

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.