Explore Lincolnton, 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 Lincolnton, 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 Lincolnton.
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 | Lincolnton |
| State | Georgia (GA) |
| County | Lincoln County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 33.792348 |
| Longitude | -82.479018 |
| Population | 1,480 |
| Density | 162.6 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 30817 |
| Area Code | 706, 762 |
| County Seat | Lincolnton |
| School District | Lincoln County School District |
Lincolnton rises from the iron-rich soil of the Georgia piedmont, where the earth holds a deep, rusted hue and the landscape is defined by the slow, deliberate work of water and weather. It lies 26.8 miles northwest of Evans, GA (from Evans, GA: bearing 312°T), and is situated 15.4 miles east-northeast of Washington. The horizon is punctuated by the solitary rise of Graves Mountain, a geological anchor that breaks the horizon line, while the nearby reach of Dry Fork Creek carves a quiet, serpentine path through the woodland floor. Just a few miles beyond the residential grid, the vast expanse of J. Strom Thurmond Reservoir reflects the pale, wide sky, offering a stillness that settles over the surrounding pines. Light here has a particular weight at dusk, turning the long shadows of the longleaf pines into dark, velvet fingers that stretch across the red-clay clearings.
Lincolnton preserves the character of an inland settlement shaped by the cycles of agriculture and the patient, incremental growth of the rural South. While the economy remains rooted in the rhythms of the land, the presence of the Curry Colvin Rec Complex provides a central space for the life of the people to intersect, moving through the days with a cadence that favors endurance over speed. History is not merely a record here but a tangible presence, felt in the way the architecture of the courthouse square holds the heat of the afternoon and in the quiet industry of those who work the fields and timber tracts. Even as the modern world turns elsewhere, Lincolnton maintains an internal gravity, a stubborn adherence to the pace of a place where the seasons dictate the labor and the land remains the final authority on the quality of life.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Lincolnton, Georgia. Coordinates: 33.792348, -82.479018. 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 Lincolnton includes the ZIP code (30817), telephone area code (706, 762), county seat of Lincoln County (Lincolnton), and school district assignment (Lincoln 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. |