Explore Ambrose, Georgia, with this interactive street and satellite map.
This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Ambrose, Georgia. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of Georgia or beyond.
Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).
TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Ambrose.
Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.
Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.
| City | Ambrose |
| State | Georgia (GA) |
| County | Coffee County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 31.593803 |
| Longitude | -83.014315 |
| Population | 327 |
| Density | 41.4 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 31512 |
| Area Code | 229 |
| County Seat | Douglas |
| School District | Coffee County School District |
Ambrose occupies a quiet stretch of the Georgia landscape where the earth settles into a slow, deliberate flatness. It lies 11.3 miles west-northwest of Douglas, GA (from Douglas, GA: bearing 301°T), and is situated 16.3 miles east-southeast of Fitzgerald. Bear Creek carves a thin, rhythmic path through the periphery, its dark water moving with a lethargic grace that defines the local hydrology. To the west, the horizon remains stubbornly level, offering no grand peaks, though the distant elevation of Rose Hill provides a faint, singular break in the skyline. The air here holds a heavy, humid stillness, often thick with the scent of sun-warmed pine needles and the damp, metallic tang rising from the soil after a summer storm. Light at dusk filters through the canopy in long, amber slats, illuminating the fine dust that hangs suspended over the fields until the cicadas begin their evening chorus.
Ambrose emerged from the necessity of the land, its foundations deeply rooted in the agricultural cycles of the region. The economy remains tethered to the rhythm of the harvest, where the cultivation of pecans and timber dictates the pace of the calendar. Life moves with an internal logic that ignores the frantic acceleration of the distant metropolitan centers, favoring instead the steady persistence of local trade and the maintenance of family acreage. Residents often find their recreation in the simple, structured activity at the Huckaby Softball Complex, or they might seek the cooler, quiet margins of Hilliards Pond when the heat of the afternoon becomes too intense. It is a place of modest scale, where the history of the soil is written in the rows of crops and the quiet, enduring labor of those who remain to tend them.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Ambrose, Georgia. Coordinates: 31.593803, -83.014315. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.
Detailed location data for Ambrose includes the ZIP code (31512), telephone area code (229), county seat of Coffee County (Douglas), and school district assignment (Coffee County School District).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |