Wildwood Georgia Map

About Wildwood, Georgia

Wildwood is a locality in Bartow County, Georgia, United States. It is a small community with a population of 382. The population density is 45.7 people per km². Wildwood is located at 34.9669°N, 85.4215°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 30157, 30120, 30240.

Wildwood claims its modest place upon a landscape defined by the persistent, winding course of Satterfield Branch as it carves a path through the dense, verdant undergrowth. It lies 1.7 miles north-northeast of Cartersville, GA (from Cartersville, GA: bearing 19°T), and is situated 8.7 miles east-northeast of Euharlee. The air here holds a heavy, humid stillness at dusk, when the light turns a bruised shade of violet and the long shadows of pine trees stretch across the red clay soil. Beyond the immediate thickets, the terrain opens into the quiet expanse of Peeples Valley, a depression in the earth that catches the morning mist and keeps it trapped against the low-lying fields. On the horizon, the distant, hazy blue silhouettes of the Appalachian Mountains provide a constant, immovable frame for the daily transit of the sun, while the nearby waters of Gene Tilley Lake offer a solitary, reflective surface that mirrors the changing color of the sky.

Wildwood persists as a quiet outpost where the rhythms of the regional economy remain tethered to the slow, deliberate work of the land and the modest commerce of a rural crossroads. Life moves with a gravity born of generations who have watched the seasons turn, finding their recreation in the simple, grassy stretches of MLK Jr. Drive Park, where the afternoon heat relents under the shade of mature oaks. The history of the locality is written not in grand monuments, but in the enduring lines of fence rows and the persistent resilience of the local flora that reclaims any space left untended for too long. In the quiet intervals between the passing of a truck or the rustle of wind through the branches, one feels the steady pulse of a place that values the weight of its own silence and the unadorned truth of its geography.

About This Wildwood Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Wildwood, Georgia. Coordinates: 34.966937, -85.421501. 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 Wildwood includes the ZIP code (30157, 30120, 30240), telephone area code (404, 470, 678, 770), county seat of Bartow County (Cartersville), and school district assignment (Dade County School District).

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.