Callaway, MD

Callaway is a St. Mary's County census-designated place in Southern Maryland, first listed as a CDP in the 2020 census. The 2020 census counted 1,779 residents, and the community sits at an elevation of about 105 feet. There is no incorporated town government here, so the place is defined by county roads, homes, small businesses, and the surrounding network of Leonardtown, Lexington Park, and other peninsula communities. Callaway's identity comes from being a named rural center on the map, with enough population for a recognizable community but no separate municipal boundary to organize daily life.

St. Mary's County's planning map places Callaway among its village centers, intended to focus rural community facilities, services, and activities. Leonardtown and Lexington Park carry the county's larger concentrations of government, commerce, and institutions, while Callaway sits in the middle tier between those places and the more dispersed countryside. Point Lookout Road and nearby county routes give residents the practical connections, and the county school and library systems fill in what a town hall would handle elsewhere. Callaway is the kind of Southern Maryland place that makes more sense when you look at the whole peninsula: a small named center, a county-run civic structure, and a daily map shaped by roads leading to bigger nearby communities.