Mays Chapel, Maryland

About Mays Chapel

Mays Chapel is a small unincorporated community in northern Maryland.

Mays Chapel holds the status of a census-designated place — a real, named community that residents call home, governed at the county level. The community covers 4.48 square miles.

📰 Mays Chapel News Today

• Motorcyclist, 22, dead after losing control and hitting pole in Mays Chapel WBFF · Jul 17
• Motorcycle rider killed in Cockeysville crash identified WMAR 2 News Baltimore · Jul 17
• Judith Swansburg Smith Obituary (2026) - Mays Chapel, MD - Ruck Towson Funeral Home, Inc. Legacy obituary · Jan 12
• Mays Chapel, MD Weather Radar WeatherBug · Sep 11
• Fire damages Mays Chapel home - WBAL-TV WBAL-TV · Aug 2

Live headlines via Google News — updates through the day.

What Makes Mays Chapel Unique

• The only place in America named Mays Chapel — a truly one-of-a-kind name among 32,000+ US communities.
• An unincorporated community — no city hall of its own, which often means lower local taxes and county-managed services.
• Positioned in northern Maryland, convenient to the region's corridors and crossings.

Why People Love It Here

• Quiet streets and a slower rhythm — the kind of place people move to on purpose.
• Cost of living typically runs below the big-metro average.
• Well connected: 3+ neighboring communities within 4 miles.

📍 Neighborhoods in Mays Chapel

Click a neighborhood to see it on the map.

🍽️ Where to Eat in Mays Chapel

• Aveley Farms Coffee Roasters — coffee shop (café)
• Joey Chiu — chinese
• Kooper's North
• Mother's North Grille
• Starbucks — coffee shop (café)
• Tark's Grill — regional
• Carroll's Carry Out — breakfast
• Chili's — tex-mex
• Costa’s Inn — seafood
• Ding How — chinese

Local spots mapped by the OpenStreetMap community.

🏞️ Parks & Outdoors in Mays Chapel

• Chapel Gate Open Space · Nature reserve reviews ★
• Chestnut Ridge reviews ★
• Mayfair Local Open Space reviews ★
• Mays Chapel North Open Space · Nature reserve reviews ★
• Mays Chapel Village Open Space · Nature reserve reviews ★
• Meadowood Regional Park reviews ★
• Plumbridge Condo Open Space · Nature reserve reviews ★
• Stormwater Management Area · Nature reserve reviews ★
• Trish Harper Graduation Garden · Garden reviews ★
• Tullamore Condominum Open Space · Nature reserve reviews ★
• UME Master Gardener Learning Garden · Garden reviews ★
• Valley Fields North reviews ★

Parks mapped by the OpenStreetMap community · "reviews" opens each park's live Google reviews.

⚡ Quick Facts

🗺️ Map of Mays Chapel

🏘️ Nearby Communities