Explore Mount Zion, 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 Mount Zion, 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 Mount Zion.
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 | Mount Zion |
| State | Georgia (GA) |
| County | Hancock County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 33.642561 |
| Longitude | -85.180998 |
| Population | 1,766 |
| Density | 70.2 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Codes | 30182, 30117, 31087 |
| Area Code | 912, 404, 470, 678 |
| County Seat | Sparta |
| School District | Carroll County School District |
Mount Zion emerges from the deep, iron-rich red clay of the Piedmont, where the horizon is defined by the steady, unyielding silhouettes of longleaf pine. It lies 23.4 miles north-northeast of Milledgeville, GA (from Milledgeville, GA: bearing 34°T), and is situated 17.9 miles southeast of Greensboro. The landscape holds a quiet gravity, marked by the slow, meandering path of Neel Creek as it cuts through the earth just a mile from the center. Light here at dusk possesses a peculiar, amber weight, clinging to the needles of the pines and softening the sharp edges of the fields until the world feels suspended in a low, golden hum. To the west, the land rises slightly toward the distant, hazy prominence of Gunn Hill, though the immediate view remains one of vast, open silence and the persistent, creeping reach of kudzu vines claiming the fences.
Mount Zion carries the quiet weight of generations who carved a living from this stubborn, fecund soil, balancing the labor of agriculture with the rhythms of a rural interior. The local economy remains tethered to the patterns of the land, while the nearby Hancock County Rec Facility offers a sparse, grassy expanse for those seeking the stillness of the woods. Residents often look toward the shimmering, expansive surface of Lake Sinclair, which provides a cooling presence only six miles away, reflecting the wide Georgia sky in its dark, glassy depths. Life in Mount Zion moves with the deliberate pace of a season, where the primary concerns are the cycle of the crops and the simple, enduring fact of the terrain itself.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Mount Zion, Georgia. Coordinates: 33.642561, -85.180998. 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 Mount Zion includes the ZIP code (30182, 30117, 31087), telephone area code (912, 404, 470, 678), county seat of Hancock County (Sparta), and school district assignment (Carroll 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. |