Sharpsburg
Sharpsburg is a small historic American village in Washington County in Western Maryland, home to Antietam National Battlefield.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 665 residents
- Description: town in Maryland, United States
- Also known as: “Sharpsburg, Maryland”, “Sharpsburg, MD”, and “Sharpsburgh”
- Postal code: 21782
Places of Interest
Highlights include Antietam National Battlefield and Antietam National Battlefield Visitor Center.
Antietam National Battlefield
Protected area
Photo: Acroterion, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Antietam National Battlefield is a National Park Service-protected area along Antietam Creek in Sharpsburg, Washington County, northwestern Maryland. It commemorates the American Civil War Battle of Antietam that occurred on September 17, 1862.
Antietam National Battlefield Visitor Center
Museum
Photo: Farragutful, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Antietam National Battlefield Visitor Center is a museum.
Antietam National Cemetery
Cemetery
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Antietam National Battlefield is a National Park Service-protected area along Antietam Creek in Sharpsburg, Washington County, northwestern Maryland. It commemorates the American Civil War Battle of Antietam that occurred on September 17, 1862.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Shepherdstown and Keedysville.
Shepherdstown
Photo: Acroterion, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Shepherdstown is a small historic town in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, on the Potomac River and near both the Maryland and Virginia borders.
Keedysville
Village
Photo: Famartin, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Keedysville is a town in Washington County, Maryland, United States. The population was 1,152 at the 2010 census. Keedysville is situated 3 miles northeast of Sharpsburg.
Antietam
Hamlet
Antietam is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Washington County, Maryland, United States. Its population was 98 as of the 2020 census. Antietam is situated 3 miles south of Sharpsburg.
Sharpsburg
- Categories: town in the United States and locality
- Location: Washington County, Western Maryland, Maryland, Mid-Atlantic, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.4582° or 39° 27′ 30″ northLongitude
-77.7487° or 77° 44′ 55″ westPopulation
665Elevation
420 feet (128 metres)Open location code
87F4F752+7GOpenStreetMap ID
node 157570576OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
4369352Wikidata ID
Q754473
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Sharpsburg” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “شاربسبورغ”
- Basque: “Sharpsburg”
- Catalan: “Sharpsburg”
- Cebuano: “Sharpsburg”
- Chechen: “Шарпсбург (Мэриленд)”
- Chechen: “Шарпсбург”
- Chinese: “Sharpsburg”
- Chinese: “夏普斯堡 (馬里蘭州)”
- Chinese: “夏普斯堡”
- Danish: “Sharpsburg”
- Dutch: “Sharpsburg”
- Egyptian Arabic: “شاربسبورج”
- French: “Sharpsburg”
- German: “Sharpsburg Historic District”
- German: “Sharpsburg”
- Gilaki: “شارپسبرگ (مريلند)”
- Gilaki: “شارپسبرگ”
- Hungarian: “Sharpsburg”
- Italian: “Sharpsburg”
- Kazakh: “Şarfsbwrg”
- Kazakh: “Шарфсбург”
- Kazakh: “شارفسبۋرگ”
- Kirghiz: “Шарфсбург”
- Ladin: “Sharpsburg”
- Latin: “Sharpsburgum”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sharpsburg”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sharpsburg”
- Norwegian: “Sharpsburg”
- Persian: “شارپسبرگ، مریلند”
- Persian: “شارپسبرگ”
- Polish: “Sharpsburg”
- Portuguese: “Sharpsburg”
- Serbian: “Шарпсбург”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sharpsburg, Maryland”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sharpsburg”
- South Azerbaijani: “شارپسبورق، مریلند”
- Spanish: “Sharpsburg”
- Swedish: “Sharpsburg”
- Tatar: “Шарпсбург (Мэриленд)”
- Tatar: “Шарпсбург”
- Ukrainian: “Шарпсбург”
- Uzbek: “Sharpsburg”
- Uzbek: “Шарпсбург”
- Volapük: “Sharpsburg”
- Welsh: “Sharpsburg, Maryland”
- Welsh: “Sharpsburg”
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