Explore Brunswick, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Brunswick, 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 Brunswick.
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 | Brunswick |
| State | North Carolina (NC) |
| County | Columbus County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 34.286836 |
| Longitude | -78.701128 |
| Population | 973 |
| Density | 627.2 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 28424 |
| Area Code | 910 |
| County Seat | Whiteville |
| School District | Whiteville City Schools |
Brunswick unfolds across a landscape defined by the steady, persistent passage of Camp Branch, which carves a quiet path through the low-lying terrain. It lies 28.8 miles southeast of Lumberton, NC (from Lumberton, NC: bearing 142°T), and is situated 3.6 miles south of Whiteville. The horizon remains wide and open, anchored in the distance by the faint, hazy silhouette of Council Ridge, while the earth itself feels heavy and rich, holding the moisture of the inland plains. Sunlight here possesses a particular quality in the late afternoon, turning the fields a deep, burnished gold that seems to linger against the backdrop of dense, dark woodlands. Only a mile away, the surface of Richardson Millpond catches the sky, acting as a mirror for the shifting clouds that drift over the flat horizon of this region.
Brunswick maintains a character shaped by the slow, deliberate work of the soil and the legacy of agricultural industry that has long defined the rhythm of its residents. The local economy persists in a quiet dialogue with the land, far removed from the frantic pace of larger hubs, finding its center in the modest shade of City of Whiteville - Whiteville City Park. History here is felt rather than displayed, lingering in the architecture of older structures and the way the local population tends to the quietude of the basin known as Big Pond Bay. Life in Brunswick moves with the gravity of the seasons, honoring a tradition of self-reliance that remains visible in the way neighbors interact and the persistence of small-scale commerce that keeps the area grounded.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Brunswick, North Carolina. Coordinates: 34.286836, -78.701128. 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 Brunswick includes the ZIP code (28424), telephone area code (910), county seat of Columbus County (Whiteville), and school district assignment (Whiteville City 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. |