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Gillsville Georgia Map

Explore Gillsville, 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.

Interactive Map of Gillsville, Georgia

How to Use This Gillsville, Georgia Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Gillsville, 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 Gillsville.

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	Gillsville
State	Georgia (GA)
County	Banks County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	34.307882
Longitude	-83.633504
Population	306
Density	60.7 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	30543
Area Code	770, 678
County Seat	Homer
School District	Hall County School District

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About Gillsville, Georgia

Gillsville is a locality in Banks County, Georgia, United States. It is a small community with a population of 306. The population density is 60.7 people per km². Gillsville is located at 34.3079°N, 83.6335°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Gillsville is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 30543.

Gillsville remains a quiet presence upon the deep red clay of the Georgia piedmont, where the land swells into gentle rises and falls beneath a canopy of longleaf pine. It lies 10.9 miles east of Gainesville, GA (from Gainesville, GA: bearing 86°T), and is situated 5.8 miles south-southeast of Lula. Candler Creek carves a persistent, winding path through the landscape, its dark waters reflecting the heavy, humid air that settles over the region during the long afternoons. To the northwest, the hazy, blue-tinted silhouettes of the Blue Ridge Mountains frame the horizon, providing a distant, jagged boundary to the otherwise soft contours of the local terrain. Only a mile away, the quiet stillness of Reservoir 15 holds the sky in its glass-like surface, while the nearby Hopewell Road Recreation offers a patch of maintained green where the scent of damp earth and pine needles dominates the breeze.

Gillsville preserves a modest, industrious character, rooted in an economy that has long favored the patient cultivation of the soil and the quiet labor of small-scale production. The legacy of local craftsmanship lingers in the architectural simplicity of the older structures that define the center, where the pace of the day is dictated by the slow shift of shadows across the storefronts rather than the urgency of the modern world. Life here moves with a steady, deliberate gravity, marked by the seasonal rhythm of peach and pecan harvests that have sustained families for generations. In the late hours of the day, as the heat wanes, Gillsville reveals a singular beauty in the way the fading light catches the iron-rich dust of the roads, turning the ground to a brilliant, burnished copper that glows against the darkening woods.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Hopewell Road Recreation (Local Park) — 1.1 mi, 310° NW
East Hall Park & Community Center (Local Recreation) — 5.7 mi, 277° W
North Georgia Canopy Tours (Attraction) — 5.8 mi, 320° NW
Greenspace Program Acquisition (Local Recreation) — 6.8 mi, 306° NW
Wilson Shoals Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 6.9 mi, 017° N
Wilson Shoals WMA (Nature Reserve) — 7.1 mi, 020° N
Sidney Lanier Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 7.3 mi, 318° NW
Lake Sidney Lanier (Recreation Area) — 7.4 mi, 318° NW
Don Carter State Park (State Park) — 7.7 mi, 310° NW
Lula Bridge Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 8.2 mi, 336° NW
Rabbittown Rabbit (Public Artwork) — 8.3 mi, 273° W
Charles Donley 11/07/2024 (Monument) — 9.9 mi, 282° W
Line Baptist Church (Monument) — 10.1 mi, 046° NE
Biccentenial Park (Monument) — 10.5 mi, 265° W
Breneau Ballet Center (Arts Centre) — 10.6 mi, 268° W
Breneau Athletes Artwork (Arts Centre) — 10.6 mi, 268° W
Breneau Outdoor Theater (Theatre) — 10.6 mi, 268° W
Commerce Cinemas (Cinema) — 10.7 mi, 111° E
Pendergrass Flea Market (Attraction) — 10.9 mi, 187° S
The Sun (Attraction) — 11.0 mi, 267° W
Mercury (Attraction) — 11.1 mi, 267° W
Gallery on the Square (Gallery) — 11.1 mi, 267° W
Walnut Creek Overlook (Viewpoint) — 12.1 mi, 249° W
Chicopee Woods Nature Preserve (Nature Reserve) — 12.2 mi, 248° W
Chattahoochee National Forest (National Forest) — 13.4 mi, 031° NE · 752k acres
Train Caboose Museum (Museum) — 22.4 mi, 193° S
Colleen Q Williams Community Theater (Theatre) — 22.4 mi, 193° S
Raven Cliffs Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 27.3 mi, 338° N · 9,240 acres
Mark Trail Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 27.8 mi, 344° N · 17k acres
Sumter National Forest (National Forest) — 31.6 mi, 034° NE · 375k acres

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