Shaft, Maryland

About Shaft

Shaft, MD is a small unincorporated community located in northwestern Maryland.

Shaft holds the status of a census-designated place — a real, named community that residents call home, governed at the county level. The community covers 0.79 square miles.

📰 Shaft News Today

• Shaft Air Quality Index (AQI) and USA Air Pollution IQAir · Aug 11
• Medstar Washington patient falls down hospital utility shaft, rescued by firefighters WUSA9 · Mar 1
• State trooper killed in crash on I-95 - WBAL-TV WBAL-TV · May 23
• Harvey McKenzie Obituary Dec 16, 2015 Durst Funeral Home · Jul 30
• Shift and Shaft Some More? Montgomery Perspective · Feb 24

Live headlines via Google News — updates through the day.

What Makes Shaft Unique

• The only place in America named Shaft — 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 northwestern Maryland, convenient to the region's corridors and crossings.

Why People Love It Here

• Small-town pace of life: less traffic, more community, and neighbors who wave.
• Cost of living typically runs below the big-metro average.
• Well connected: 3+ neighboring communities within 1 miles.

⚡ Quick Facts

🗺️ Map of Shaft

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