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Broad Creek North Carolina Map

Explore Broad 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 Broad Creek, North Carolina

How to Use This Broad Creek, North Carolina Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Broad 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 Broad 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	Broad Creek
State	North Carolina (NC)
County	Carteret County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	34.73411
Longitude	-76.919025
Population	1,968
Density	244.6 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	28570
Area Code	910
County Seat	Beaufort
School District	Carteret County Schools

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About Broad Creek, North Carolina

Broad Creek is a locality in Carteret County, North Carolina, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,968. The population density is 244.6 people per km². Broad Creek is located at 34.7341°N, 76.9190°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 28570.

Broad Creek defines the landscape with a slow, deliberate movement of brackish water that carves through the low-lying terrain toward the Atlantic Ocean. It lies 11.1 miles south of Havelock, NC (from Havelock, NC: bearing 190°T), and is situated 6.3 miles southwest of Newport. The air here carries a heavy, salt-sweet moisture, clinging to the dense maritime vegetation that thrives in the humid coastal warmth. A mile to the west, the quiet surface of Patsy Pond mirrors the shifting gray clouds, while the nearby expanse of Croatan National Forest provides a thick buffer of pine and hardwood against the open sky. Far to the west, the jagged silhouette of Davis Ridge remains a mere memory on the horizon, too distant to disrupt the flat, expansive horizon that characterizes this humid edge of the world. The Dog Islands emerge from the tides like weathered sentinels, marking the transition where the solid earth finally concedes to the relentless pull of the currents.

Broad Creek maintains a rhythm dictated by the tides and the seasonal migration of those who have long harvested the bounty of these waters. While the economy has shifted from the labor of early maritime trade and local timbering to a more modern, service-oriented pace, the fundamental connection to the Atlantic Ocean remains the primary pulse of the locality. Residents move with a quiet courtesy, shaped by generations of living in a place where the land is as transient as the storms that occasionally reshape the shoreline. The proximity to the protected stretches of Croatan National Forest ensures that, despite the encroachment of modern development, a profound stillness persists in the shaded thickets. Life in Broad Creek proceeds with the steady, unadorned endurance of a place that understands its own precarious beauty, suspended between the deep woods and the vast, surging blue.

Nearby Outdoor Places

North Carolina Coastal Land Trust - Gales Creek Preserve at Camp Sam Hatcher (Conservation Area) — locality lies within
Croatan National Forest (National Forest) — 0.1 mi, 330° NW · 162k acres
Croatan Game Land (Marine Protected Area) — 0.1 mi, 330° NW
Pocosin Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 4.4 mi, 323° NW · 12k acres
Newport River Park (State Recreation Area) — 4.5 mi, 048° NE
Theodore Roosevelt State Natural Area (State Park) — 5.0 mi, 122° SE
Theodore Roosevelt State Natural Area Dedicated Nature Preserve (Marine Protected Area) — 5.0 mi, 122° SE
Pettiford Creek State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 5.6 mi, 265° W
North Carolina Safe Harbor Agreement - Red-cockaded Woodpecker (State Conservation Area) — 8.8 mi, 347° N
Golfin Dolphin Golf Plane (Attraction) — 8.8 mi, 253° W
Emerald Plantation Cinema 4 (Cinema) — 8.9 mi, 236° SW
Carteret County Museum of History (Museum) — 9.1 mi, 095° E
Pond Pine Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 9.6 mi, 308° NW · 1,692 acres
Battle Works - Tactical Laser Tag (Attraction) — 9.6 mi, 103° E
Atlantic Station Cinema (Cinema) — 9.6 mi, 104° E
Hammocks Beach State Park (State Park) — 10.8 mi, 256° W
Carteret County Historical Society (Museum) — 11.5 mi, 094° E
Big Rock (Monument) — 11.8 mi, 094° E
Morehead City Waterfront (Attraction) — 11.8 mi, 095° E
Michael John Smith (Monument) — 14.5 mi, 095° E
Lookout Cruises (Attraction) — 14.6 mi, 095° E
Cape Lookout National Seashore (National Lakeshore) — 14.7 mi, 102° E · 41k acres
Blackbeard (Public Artwork) — 20.6 mi, 082° E
New Bern Civil War Battlefield Park (Registered Battlefield) — 22.4 mi, 346° N
1812 Lighthouse Foundation Ruins (Historic Ruins) — 23.7 mi, 109° E
Oriental's History Museum (Museum) — 24.2 mi, 032° NE
Spider Lady (Monument) — 26.3 mi, 345° N
New Bern Firemen's Museum (Museum) — 26.8 mi, 345° N
Zing Zumm (Museum) — 28.7 mi, 272° W
MCAS New River Theater (Theatre) — 29.9 mi, 269° W

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