Avery Creek North Carolina Map
Explore Avery Creek, North Carolina, 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 Avery Creek, North Carolina
How to Use This Avery Creek, North Carolina Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Avery Creek, North Carolina. 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 North Carolina 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 Avery Creek.
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 | Avery Creek |
| State | North Carolina (NC) |
| County | Buncombe County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 35.463446 |
| Longitude | -82.582624 |
| Population | 2,241 |
| Density | 499.6 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 28704 |
| Area Code | 828 |
| County Seat | Asheville |
| School District | Buncombe County Schools |
About Avery Creek, North Carolina
Avery Creek is a locality in Buncombe County, North Carolina, United States. It has a population of approximately 2,241. The population density is 499.6 people per km². Avery Creek is located at 35.4634°N, 82.5826°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 28704.Avery Creek emerges from the verdant, high-altitude terrain as a landscape defined by the persistent, rhythmic movement of the Clayton Creek as it carves through the earth. It lies 3.7 miles west of Arden, NC (from Arden, NC: bearing 267°T), and is situated 9.6 miles south of Asheville. The air here holds a crisp, thin clarity that catches the light at dusk, casting long, violet shadows across the soil and cooling the woods long before the sun disappears behind the distant silhouette of the Blue Ridge Mountains. To the west, the topography rises in earnest, separating the immediate, lush canopy from the rugged, ancient spine of the range, while the proximity of the Pisgah National Game Refuge ensures the surrounding woodland remains dense, shadowed, and largely undisturbed by the encroachment of modern development.
Economic life in Avery Creek maintains an understated pace, tethered to the natural resources and the quiet industry of the interior highlands that have sustained families here for generations. The legacy of the region lingers in the way local trade moves, favoring a steady, localized exchange that mirrors the slow, deliberate growth of the nearby Bent Creek Experimental Forest. Residents often look toward the nearby Poplar Cove or the waters of Lake Julian for respite, finding a familiar solace in the stillness that defines the basin. Those who seek to traverse the terrain often find their way toward the Side Hill Trail, where the earth underfoot feels as settled and permanent as the history of the Appalachian foothills themselves.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Pisgah National Forest (National Forest) — 0.6 mi, 308° NW · 511k acres
- Pisgah National Game Refuge (National Conservation Area) — 0.6 mi, 308° NW · 72k acres
- Bent Creek Experimental Forest (Recreation Easement) — 1.5 mi, 310° NW
- Buncombe County Open Space - Glen Bridge River and Picnic Park (Local Recreation) — 1.7 mi, 122° SE
- Buncombe County Park (Local Park) — 1.7 mi, 122° SE
- RiverLink Preserve (Conservation Area) — 1.8 mi, 061° NE
- Lake Julian Park (Local Park) — 1.8 mi, 066° NE
- Sierra Nevada Brewing Co. (Attraction) — 2.8 mi, 144° SE
- View Chesnut Cove (Viewpoint) — 3.0 mi, 267° W
- Dixie Highway Monument (Monument) — 4.5 mi, 108° E
- Ferin Fire Tower (Historic Ruins) — 5.1 mi, 267° W
- Statue of Diana (Public Artwork) — 5.6 mi, 020° N
- Antler Hill Village (Attraction) — 6.4 mi, 360° N
- Level 42 Gallery & Studio (Gallery) — 7.8 mi, 007° N
- Grail Moviehouse (Cinema) — 7.9 mi, 007° N
- Art Garden AVL (Gallery) — 7.9 mi, 006° N
- North Carolina Glass Center (Gallery) — 8.5 mi, 006° N
- The Bunkum Stone (Monument) — 9.0 mi, 011° N
- Asheville Pinball Museum (Museum) — 9.3 mi, 009° N
- Anne Penland (Monument) — 9.3 mi, 010° N
- Buck Springs Lodge foundation (Historic Ruins) — 10.0 mi, 250° W
- Pisgah View State Park (State Park) — 10.5 mi, 275° W
- Beaver Lake Bird Sanctuary (Nature Reserve) — 11.8 mi, 007° N
- Mineral & Lapidary Museum (Museum) — 12.3 mi, 146° SE
- 1915 Climax Locomotive (Attraction) — 13.3 mi, 234° SW
- Shining Rock Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 13.5 mi, 255° W · 18k acres
- Western North Carolina Air Museum (Museum) — 13.7 mi, 143° SE
- Middle Prong Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 19.8 mi, 247° SW · 7,482 acres
- Nantahala National Forest (National Forest) — 22.7 mi, 238° SW · 533k acres
- Great Smoky Mountains National Park (National Park) — 26.8 mi, 300° NW · 521k acres
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About This Avery Creek Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Avery Creek, North Carolina. Coordinates: 35.463446, -82.582624. 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 Avery Creek includes the ZIP code (28704), telephone area code (828), county seat of Buncombe County (Asheville), and school district assignment (Buncombe County Schools).
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. |
