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Belwood North Carolina Map

Explore Belwood, 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 Belwood, North Carolina

How to Use This Belwood, North Carolina Map

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

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	Belwood
State	North Carolina (NC)
County	Cleveland County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	35.477076
Longitude	-81.523424
Population	857
Density	26.9 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	28090
Area Code	704, 980
County Seat	Shelby
School District	Cleveland County Schools

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About Belwood, North Carolina

Belwood is a locality in Cleveland County, North Carolina, United States. It is a small community with a population of 857. The population density is 26.9 people per km². Belwood is located at 35.4771°N, 81.5234°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Belwood is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 28090.

Belwood occupies a quiet expanse of the Piedmont where the earth moves in long, slow swells of clay and loam. It lies 12.8 miles north of Shelby, NC (from Shelby, NC: bearing 3°T), and is situated 19.0 miles north-northwest of Kings Mountain. The air here holds a particular weight, smelling of damp soil and the sharp, pine-heavy breath of the woods that persist in the hollows. Buffalo Creek carves a narrow, winding path just a mile away, its waters moving with a deliberate, muddy patience toward the larger basin. To the west, the distant, hazy blue silhouettes of the Blue Ridge Mountains frame the horizon, acting as a permanent, silent sentry over the lower, flatter stretches of the landscape. At the center of this rural stretch, Belwood Recreation Center Ii serves as the primary clearing, a patch of maintained grass that catches the low, slanted light of late afternoon, casting long shadows that stretch toward the edges of the woods.

Belwood remains a place defined by the steady, unpretentious labor of the inland plains, where the legacy of agriculture and the hum of small-scale industry have shaped the daily rhythm of the inhabitants. The history of the area is etched in the architecture of modest farmsteads and the remnants of older, agrarian structures that once relied on the proximity of water to sustain their crops. Four miles away, the surface of Ross Pond remains a dark, reflective eye in the landscape, a quiet basin that has seen the slow transition from field-tending to the modern pace of the local economy. Life in Belwood is governed by the shifting seasons of the interior, where the heat of summer settles heavy upon the pavement and the winters bring a crisp, gray stillness that settles over the fields. The character of the people is rooted in this same stasis, a quiet endurance that values the reliability of the land over the frantic movement of the wider world.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Belwood Recreation Center Ii (Local Recreation) — 0.0 mi, 040° NE
Lincoln County - West Lincoln Park (Local Recreation) — 4.6 mi, 052° NE
South Mountains Game Land (State Conservation Area) — 8.0 mi, 308° NW
South Mountains State Park (State Park) — 8.4 mi, 330° NW
Gaston County Park (Local Park) — 10.3 mi, 136° SE
Foothills Conservancy of North Carolina Preserve (Conservation Area) — 10.3 mi, 333° NW
Little Theater (Theatre) — 10.6 mi, 131° SE
Jacob Fork Overlook (Viewpoint) — 10.8 mi, 324° NW
Wilderness Gateway State Trail (State Park) — 14.3 mi, 038° NE
Tryon Resolves (Monument) — 14.9 mi, 130° SE
Lincoln County Museum of History (Museum) — 15.2 mi, 091° E
Caboose (Attraction) — 19.3 mi, 246° SW
Hickory Aviation Museum (Museum) — 19.8 mi, 022° N
McGalliard Falls (Attraction) — 20.1 mi, 353° N
Old Hickory Tavern (Monument) — 20.4 mi, 030° NE
Historic Town Limits (Monument) — 20.6 mi, 335° NW
Catawba Science Center (Museum) — 20.8 mi, 031° NE
Hickory Museum of Art (Gallery) — 20.8 mi, 031° NE
Catawba County Historical Museum (Museum) — 21.3 mi, 053° NE
Martin Luther (Public Artwork) — 21.3 mi, 031° NE
Belk Centrum (Arts Centre) — 21.3 mi, 031° NE
Historic Newton Depot (Museum) — 21.8 mi, 051° NE
Johns River Game Land (State Conservation Area) — 22.2 mi, 345° N
Kings Mountain (Registered Battlefield) — 24.5 mi, 161° S
Pisgah National Forest (National Forest) — 26.1 mi, 304° NW · 511k acres
Balls Creek Campground (Attraction) — 26.1 mi, 066° NE
Something Rotten (Attraction) — 28.2 mi, 313° NW
Wilson Creek, North Carolina Wild and Scenic River (Wild & Scenic River) — 29.9 mi, 340° N · 7,017 acres
Linville Gorge Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 30.8 mi, 321° NW · 12k acres
Sumter National Forest (National Forest) — 49.5 mi, 173° S · 375k acres

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