Butters North Carolina Map

About Butters, North Carolina

Butters is a locality in Bladen County, North Carolina, United States. It is a small community with a population of 62. The population density is 20.1 people per km². Butters is located at 34.5604°N, 78.8484°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 28320.

Butters lies low and wide, a place where the land seems to exhale, its flatness broken only by the gentle rise and fall of pine-studded ridges and the slow, dark veins of water. It lies 34.1 miles south of Fayetteville, NC (from Fayetteville, NC: bearing 177°T), and is situated 10.0 miles east-south-east of Lumberton. The air here carries the damp, earthy scent of the coastal plain, a subtle perfume of decaying leaves and the distant salt tang from the Atlantic. Longleaf pines, their needles whispering secrets to the breeze, dominate the horizon, casting dappled shadows that shift and lengthen with the sun's arc. The sky above Butters is an expansive canvas, often painted with the bruised purples and fiery oranges of a coming storm, or the soft, diffused light of a humid morning that clings to the landscape like a fine mist. The history of Butters is inextricably linked to the rich, dark soil that yields its bounty, a land once cleared and cultivated by generations who understood the rhythms of the seasons. The economy has long been rooted in agriculture, with cotton and tobacco once forming the backbone of its prosperity, their fields now often yielding to the more resilient embrace of timber and the quiet hum of small-scale farming. Echoes of this past linger in the weathered barns and the memories held within the community, a shared narrative of resilience and adaptation. While grand landmarks are few, the true character of Butters resides in the quiet persistence of its people and the enduring connection they maintain with the land, a landscape shaped by water and time, where life unfolds at a pace that allows for contemplation under the vast, ever-changing sky.

About This Butters Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Butters, North Carolina — switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 34.560445, -78.848357. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service, with current observations and a 7-day forecast also powered by Open-Meteo. Real-time local news and world news feeds keep the page current, while a Wikipedia summary or an editorially written description provides background on Butters and Bladen County.

Detailed location data for Butters includes the ZIP code (28320), telephone area code (704, 980), county seat of Bladen County (Elizabethtown), and school district assignment (Bladen County Schools). These are among the most commonly searched location details for any US city or town.

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity — ensuring the correct Butters is identified even where the name is shared across multiple counties or states. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.