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Ray City Georgia Map

Explore Ray City, 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 Ray City, Georgia

How to Use This Ray City, Georgia Map

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

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.

CityRay City
StateGeorgia (GA)
CountyBerrien County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneEastern Time (America/New_York)
Latitude31.074644
Longitude-83.199319
Population956
Density322.1 /km²
IncorporatedYes
ZIP Code31645
Area Code229
County SeatNashville
School DistrictBerrien County School District

About Ray City, Georgia

Ray City is a locality in Berrien County, Georgia, United States. It is a small community with a population of 956. The population density is 322.1 people per km². Ray City is located at 31.0746°N, 83.1993°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Ray City is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 31645.

Ray City emerges from the flat, pine-heavy expanse of the southern Georgia landscape as a place defined by the slow, deliberate movement of water and the tenacity of the soil. It lies 17.4 miles north-northeast of Valdosta, GA (from Valdosta, GA: bearing 16°T), and is situated 9.7 miles south-southeast of Nashville. Beaverdam Creek snakes through the low-lying terrain, its tea-colored currents carving a path through dense thickets and past the quiet edges of Batterbee Branch Park, where the afternoon light filters through the canopy in long, amber needles. The air here holds a heavy, humid stillness, thick with the scent of damp earth and the resinous sharpness of longleaf pine, creating a horizon that feels infinite and undisturbed. Just two miles to the west, the surface of Rays Millpond remains glassy and dark, reflecting the shifting clouds in a mirror of stagnant, ancient water that anchors the periphery of the landscape.

Ray City maintains a quiet continuity with the agricultural traditions that first marked this corner of the state, where the red-clay earth demands labor and offers a seasonal bounty in return. The local economy persists in the rhythm of the harvest, echoing a history built upon the steady cultivation of the land and the modest commerce of a rural crossroads. Life in Ray City moves with the unforced pace of a pendulum, where the maintenance of the land remains a primary occupation and the shared knowledge of the seasons dictates the flow of the day. Even as modern transit lines pull at the edges of the horizon, the locality remains defined by the particular silence of the woods and the persistent, quiet presence of the water that sustains it.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Batterbee Branch Park (Local Recreation) — 0.2 mi, 276° W
  • Banks Lake National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 4.0 mi, 148° SE · 5,962 acres
  • Grand Bay Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 4.8 mi, 151° SE
  • War Between the States (Monument) — 9.6 mi, 342° N
  • F-16 Model (Public Artwork) — 11.4 mi, 195° S
  • Maddie's Tree (Monument) — 11.5 mi, 195° S
  • Unknown Park (Local Park) — 11.6 mi, 242° SW
  • Greenspace Program Acquisition (Local Recreation) — 11.6 mi, 199° S
  • L.M.Stanfill (Monument) — 11.9 mi, 241° SW
  • Frogtown Cellars Hahira Tasting Room (Attraction) — 12.3 mi, 248° W
  • Valdosta Studio Imagination (Arts Centre) — 17.1 mi, 202° S
  • Curate Collective (Arts Centre) — 17.4 mi, 196° S
  • Dosta Theater (Theatre) — 17.4 mi, 196° S
  • 002-001 (State Recreation Area) — 19.6 mi, 017° N
  • Reed Bingham State Park (State Park) — 20.4 mi, 293° NW
  • Paradise Public Fishing Area (State Recreation Area) — 23.1 mi, 337° NW
  • Go Karts/ (Attraction) — 25.4 mi, 197° S
  • Century Wheel (Attraction) — 25.5 mi, 196° S
  • Tasmanian River Rapids (Attraction) — 25.5 mi, 197° S
  • Lakeside Showplace (Theatre) — 25.5 mi, 197° S
  • Moultrie Stadium Cinema 6 (Cinema) — 34.4 mi, 284° W
  • Museum of Colquitt County History (Museum) — 35.2 mi, 282° W
  • Douglas Motorsports Park (Stadium) — 37.1 mi, 049° NE
  • Walter R Wilson Agricultural Arena (Stadium) — 38.2 mi, 031° NE
  • Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 40.9 mi, 110° E · 815k acres
  • Okefenokee National Wildlife Refuge.Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 41.0 mi, 110° E · 350k acres
  • Osceola National Forest (National Forest) — 43.7 mi, 171° S · 160k acres
  • Treasures of Madison County Museum (Museum) — 43.8 mi, 197° S
  • The Old Poulan City Bank (Historic Ruins) — 46.1 mi, 311° NW
  • Pinhook Purchase Unit (National Forest) — 48.1 mi, 135° SE · 96k acres

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About This Ray City Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Ray City, Georgia. Coordinates: 31.074644, -83.199319. 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 Ray City includes the ZIP code (31645), telephone area code (229), county seat of Berrien County (Nashville), and school district assignment (Berrien 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 generatedSeptember 2026
Location dataSimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API.