Explore Tate 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Tate 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 Tate 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.
| City | Tate City |
| State | Georgia (GA) |
| County | Towns County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 34.981759 |
| Longitude | -83.554327 |
| Population | 27 |
| Density | 10.1 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 30525, 30546 |
| Area Code | 770, 678 |
| County Seat | Hiawassee |
| School District | Towns County School District |
Tate City emerges from the deep, damp shadows of the Chattahoochee National Forest where the landscape is defined by the relentless, cold persistence of Denton Creek. It lies 49.7 miles north-northeast of Gainesville, GA (from Gainesville, GA: bearing 18°T), and is situated 17.0 miles southwest of Franklin. The air here carries a heavy, terrestrial weight, smelling of damp loam and the ancient decay of fallen hardwoods that thrive in the shadow of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which loom on the distant horizon like a jagged, violet promise. Two miles away, the quiet basin of Bull Cove traps the morning mist, holding it against the steep, wooded flanks until the sun finally crests the ridge to burn the silver haze away. Travelers who venture this far into the interior find a geography defined by gravity and green, where the earth is stained a deep, iron-rich red and the silence is broken only by the rhythmic, shallow pulse of water moving over moss-slicked stone.
Tate City remains a quiet ghost of the logging industry, its history etched into the narrow, winding paths that once served the men who harvested the timber from these dense, protected slopes. The economic pulse of the region has long since faded from the clamor of saws to the slow, deliberate pace of those who live in communion with the Chattahoochee National Forest, favoring a life that values the stillness of the woods over the frantic tempo of the cities beyond. Those seeking the rugged solitude of the backcountry often pass through on their way to the Hurricane Creek Trail, or pause to appreciate the distant, thunderous drop of Timpson Falls. Even the stillness of the nearby Hightower Creek Watershed Number 13 Lake offers a reflective, glassy expanse that seems to mirror the town’s own preference for isolation, a place where the seasons dictate the rhythm of the day more surely than any clock.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Tate City, Georgia. Coordinates: 34.981759, -83.554327. 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 Tate City includes the ZIP code (30525, 30546), telephone area code (770, 678), county seat of Towns County (Hiawassee), and school district assignment (Towns 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. |