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Brown Summit North Carolina Map

Explore Brown Summit, 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 Brown Summit, North Carolina

How to Use This Brown Summit, North Carolina Map

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

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	Brown Summit
State	North Carolina (NC)
County	Guilford County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	36.21278
Longitude	-79.713157
Population	2,400
Density	55.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	27214
Area Code	336
County Seat	Greensboro

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About Brown Summit, North Carolina

Brown Summit is a locality in Guilford County, North Carolina, United States. It has a population of approximately 2,400. The population density is 55.0 people per km². Brown Summit is located at 36.2128°N, 79.7132°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 27214.

Brown Summit emerges from the Piedmont landscape as a quiet confluence of open fields and densely clustered hardwoods that define the central North Carolina terrain. It lies 10.2 miles south-southwest of Reidsville, NC (from Reidsville, NC: bearing 195°T), and is situated 9.1 miles north of Bessemer. The earth here holds a reddish, clay-heavy richness, supporting a patchwork of meadows that transition into the shadowed, quiet corridors of the City of Greensboro Open Space. Only two miles distant, the winding path of Reedy Fork cuts through the low-lying terrain, its waters moving with a deliberate, muddy patience toward the stillness of Lake Townsend. On the distant horizon, the faint, rounded silhouette of Pisgah Hill serves as a solitary reminder of the elevation rising toward the west, while the local air remains heavy and still, often carrying the scent of damp soil and sun-warmed pine.

Brown Summit maintains a character shaped by its long transition from agrarian roots to a modern, peripheral expanse of the regional economy. The landscape reflects a history of small-scale agriculture and the slow, inexorable pull of nearby industrial growth, yet the pace of life remains tethered to the cycles of the seasons rather than the urgency of the clock. Roads trace the boundaries of legacy farmsteads and modern residential plots, creating a geography that values space and the quietude of the interior plains. In the soft light of dusk, the shadows lengthen across the open fields, emphasizing the isolation of the rural stretches that persist despite the encroaching reach of regional development. This intersection of past utility and present residence gives Brown Summit a singular, understated permanence, existing as a place where the land dictates the rhythm of the day more than any external influence.

Nearby Outdoor Places

City of Greensboro Open Space (Local Recreation) — 0.1 mi, 240° SW
Guilford County Park (Local Park) — 0.1 mi, 238° SW
Lake Townsend - Townsend Dam (Local Resource Management Area) — 1.1 mi, 212° SW
Lake Townsend - Doggett North (Local Resource Management Area) — 1.7 mi, 247° SW
Lake Townsend Marina (Local Park) — 2.0 mi, 211° SW
Guilford County Open Space (Local Recreation) — 2.6 mi, 152° SE
Haw River State Park (State Park) — 3.1 mi, 319° NW
9/11 Memorial (Monument) — 4.7 mi, 252° W
Mountains-to-Sea Trail (State Park) — 5.1 mi, 260° W
Guilford County - Richardson-Taylor Preserve (Local Conservation Area) — 5.3 mi, 246° SW
The Kindness and Inclusiveness Children's Sculpture (Public Artwork) — 6.6 mi, 222° SW
Veterns Memorial (Monument) — 8.7 mi, 018° N
Audubon (Local Conservation Area) — 8.9 mi, 206° SW
Cavalry Monument (Monument) — 8.9 mi, 232° SW
Robeson Theatre (Theatre) — 9.8 mi, 199° S
O'Brien Art Gallery (Gallery) — 10.2 mi, 206° SW
The Marshall Muse Gallery (Gallery) — 10.2 mi, 204° SW
Van Dyke Performance Space (Theatre) — 10.5 mi, 204° SW
Center for Visual Arts (Arts Centre) — 10.5 mi, 204° SW
GreenHill Center for NC Art (Gallery) — 10.5 mi, 204° SW
Art Alliance (Arts Centre) — 10.5 mi, 204° SW
NH Farm (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 10.7 mi, 186° S
Weatherspoon Art Museum (Museum) — 11.4 mi, 207° SW
Rainbow Magic Alpaca Farm (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 11.5 mi, 242° SW
AmStar Four Seasons Station (Cinema) — 14.2 mi, 211° SW
Lawson Family Murder Museum (Museum) — 18.3 mi, 311° NW
Former Pioneer Camp Meeting/Dining Hall Chimney (Historic Ruins) — 24.7 mi, 139° SE
Richmond-Miles History Museum (Museum) — 24.8 mi, 058° NE
Uwharrie National Forest (National Forest) — 40.1 mi, 186° S · 52k acres
Birkhead Mountains Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 41.4 mi, 193° S · 5,216 acres

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