Bakersville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Washington County, Maryland, United States. Its population was 30 as of the 2010 census.

Bakersville is an historic rural crossroads community located where one of the primeval east–west roads through western Maryland crossed the main north–south road from the Sharpsburg area. The region known as Carey’s Crossroads for a then prominent landowner George Carey, had become central to the mostly German concurrence taking place in southeast Washington County during the mid to late 18th century. The immigrants followed various denominations of the Christian faith and roughly 1800 united to erect a devotion meeting home to be shared by the vary groups, primarily Lutheran, German Reformed and Methodist Episcopal. The church and graveyard were built upon land provided by George Carey (Garrick). In 1823 the outfit had outgrown the log church and a rock sanctuary and schoolhouse was built to replace it. The population had grown satisfactory for the churches to remove by 1854 and Salem Lutheran Church was built as it stands today. The cemetery of Salem Lutheran holds the remains of many prominent in the future residents. Bakersville was once house to a store, post office, doctor’s office and grist mill. 19th century census archives list many C&O Canal workers and boatmen in the village and surrounding area. Today, Salem Evangelical Lutheran Church and cemetery is the lonely public entity permanent along with the several long-lasting older homes making stirring the rural village.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the community has an Place of 0.051 square miles (0.13 km), all land.