Bethania North Carolina Map

About Bethania, North Carolina

Bethania is a locality in Forsyth County, North Carolina, United States. It is a small community with a population of 344. The population density is 195.6 people per km². Bethania is located at 36.1824°N, 80.3381°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Bethania is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 27040, 27010.

Bethania occupies a quiet stretch of land where the slow, deliberate current of Muddy Creek dictates the rhythm of the soil. It lies 7.4 miles northeast of Lewisville, NC (from Lewisville, NC: bearing 38°T), and is situated 7.7 miles northwest of Winston-Salem. The landscape unfolds in measured, verdant slopes that hold the evening light with a peculiar, heavy stillness, casting long shadows across fields that have been worked for generations. A mile away, the surface of Mallard Lake Lower mirrors the sky in a muted, slate-gray tone, providing a singular, glassy anchor to the surrounding woods. While the Appalachian Mountains remain a distant, hazy suggestion on the western horizon, the immediate terrain feels intimate and grounded, defined by the earthy scent of damp loam and the shifting colors of the canopy as the seasons pivot.

History remains an active presence in Bethania, where the architecture serves as a quiet record of an agrarian past rooted in the Moravians who shaped these clearings. The economy here has long since shifted from the labor-intensive tobacco cultivation that defined the region to a present-day character that favors preservation and a measured, deliberate pace. Visitors often walk the Graveyard Trail, a SCA that offers a contemplative passage through the landscape, allowing the silence of the woods to settle over the senses. There is an absence of frantic movement here; instead, the days are marked by the simple, persistent tasks of maintenance and the quiet observation of a land that asks for little more than a steady, respectful hand.

About This Bethania Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Bethania, North Carolina. Coordinates: 36.18236, -80.338108. 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 Bethania includes the ZIP code (27040, 27010), telephone area code (336), county seat of Forsyth County (Winston-Salem), and school district assignment (Forsyth County Schools).

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.