Explore Buena Vista, 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 Buena Vista, 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 Buena Vista.
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 | Buena Vista |
| State | Georgia (GA) |
| County | Bartow County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 32.318481 |
| Longitude | -84.517564 |
| Population | 1,585 |
| Density | 190.1 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Codes | 30121, 30240, 31803 |
| Area Code | 404, 470, 678, 229 |
| County Seat | Cartersville |
| School District | Marion County School District |
Buena Vista anchors itself upon the iron-rich red clay of the piedmont, where the earth holds the heat of the afternoon long after the sun has begun its descent. It lies 3.1 miles north-northeast of Cartersville, GA (from Cartersville, GA: bearing 26°T), and is situated 9.9 miles east-northeast of Euharlee. The landscape unfolds in a series of gentle swells and shallow depressions, a terrain that feels both ancient and persistent, marked by the dense, dark green of longleaf pine and the pervasive, creeping reach of kudzu. Satterfield Branch carves a quiet, narrow path through the nearby woodlands, its waters moving with a deliberate, sluggish grace that mirrors the stillness of the afternoon. To the west, the distant, hazy silhouette of the Appalachian Mountains occasionally haunts the horizon, while closer to home, the low-lying basin of Peeples Valley catches the morning mist. A few miles away, the surface of Gene Tilley Lake remains a flat, reflective plane, undisturbed by the rush of modern transit, and the quiet grounds of MLK Jr. Drive Park offer a space where the air feels heavy with the scent of damp soil and sun-warmed needles.
Buena Vista retains the architecture of a place built on the steady, seasonal labor of agriculture, where the courthouse square serves as the gravitational center for a life dictated by harvest and cycle. The economy remains tethered to the land, drawing sustenance from the surrounding fields where peach orchards and pecan groves define the seasons in colors of soft velvet and deep, woody brown. History here is not merely a record of the past but a layer of sediment, visible in the weathered facades of storefronts that have stood through eras of changing industry and social shift. Life in Buena Vista moves with a measured cadence, a rhythm established by the slow growth of crops and the predictable turning of the year. There is a particular clarity to the light at dusk, a golden, amber quality that softens the edges of the brick buildings and illuminates the dust motes dancing in the humid air, suggesting a continuity that persists despite the quiet pull of time.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Buena Vista, Georgia. Coordinates: 32.318481, -84.517564. 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 Buena Vista includes the ZIP code (30121, 30240, 31803), telephone area code (404, 470, 678, 229), county seat of Bartow County (Cartersville), and school district assignment (Marion 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. |