Explore Smithville, 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 Smithville, 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 Smithville.
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 | Smithville |
| State | Georgia (GA) |
| County | Lee County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 31.900445 |
| Longitude | -84.251855 |
| Population | 593 |
| Density | 90.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 31787 |
| Area Code | 229 |
| County Seat | Leesburg |
| School District | Lee County School District |
Smithville emerges from the flat, iron-rich earth of the Georgia plains, where the horizon stretches wide and the light at dusk turns the pine needles into needles of brushed copper. It lies 11.9 miles south of Americus, GA (from Americus, GA: bearing 185°T), and is situated 14.4 miles northeast of Dawson. The landscape around Smithville is defined by the slow, deliberate movement of Muckaloochee Creek, which carves a quiet path through the silt and clay only a mile from the center. Beyond the immediate fields of pecan and row crops, the land remains largely undisturbed, protected in pockets like the Greenspace Program Acquisition that preserve the native scrub and timber. On the clearest days, the distant, hazy silhouette of Rattlesnake Ridge marks the far edge of the sky, a reminder of the elevation changes that exist far beyond these level, fertile expanses. Nearby, the still waters of Wells Millpond reflect the heavy, humid clouds that gather before a summer storm, creating a mirror that doubles the vastness of the sky.
Agriculture serves as the steady pulse of Smithville, rooted in a history of soil cultivation that has defined the daily labor of its residents for generations. The economy remains tethered to the harvest of the land, maintaining a pace of life that respects the seasonal shifts of heat and rain rather than the frantic tempo of distant, paved centers. Smithville maintains a quiet, enduring character, marked by the simple architecture of its core and the pervasive scent of pine resin that hangs in the warm, stagnant air. Local life revolves around the rhythms of the fields and the small, essential exchanges that occur at the intersection of local roads. It is a place where the weight of the past is not a heavy burden but a quiet, constant companion, felt in the way the shadows lengthen across the dust of the afternoon and the way the land itself seems to hold onto the heat long after the sun has retreated behind the trees.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Smithville, Georgia. Coordinates: 31.900445, -84.251855. 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 Smithville includes the ZIP code (31787), telephone area code (229), county seat of Lee County (Leesburg), and school district assignment (Lee 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. |