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Castalia North Carolina Map

Explore Castalia, 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 Castalia, North Carolina

How to Use This Castalia, North Carolina Map

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

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	Castalia
State	North Carolina (NC)
County	Nash County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	36.081819
Longitude	-78.057488
Population	264
Density	135.4 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	27816
Area Code	919, 984
County Seat	Nashville
School District	Nash-Rocky Mount Schools

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About Castalia, North Carolina

Castalia is a locality in Nash County, North Carolina, United States. It is a small community with a population of 264. The population density is 135.4 people per km². Castalia is located at 36.0818°N, 78.0575°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Castalia is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 27816.

Castalia emerges from the red clay of the North Carolina piedmont as a quiet assembly of frame houses and open fields, where the horizon is defined by the steady, low-slung silhouettes of hardwood groves. It lies 17.9 miles west-northwest of Rocky Mount, NC (from Rocky Mount, NC: bearing 304°T), and is situated 9.0 miles northwest of Nashville. Sunlight here possesses a specific, heavy quality, filtering through the humid afternoon air to gild the edges of tobacco leaves and turn the dust of unpaved shoulders into a soft, copper haze. The land drains toward the modest, meandering path of Terry Branch, which marks the local topography with a low-lying dampness that sustains the dense thickets and tangled undergrowth. Beyond the immediate reach of the crossroads, the terrain gains a subtle elevation, eventually climbing toward the distant, hazy prominence of Medoc Mountain, a static sentinel that anchors the western view.

Castalia carries the weight of a long agricultural inheritance, where the labor of tobacco cultivation once dictated the heartbeat of the seasons and the cycle of the local economy. Though the rhythm of modern industry has shifted, the pride of the soil remains evident in the careful stewardship of the nearby Tar River Land Conservancy Preserve, which protects the wilder reaches of the landscape from encroachment. Residents maintain a private, enduring connection to their surroundings, often finding stillness in the quiet waters of Bodies Millpond, where the reflection of the clouds seems more permanent than the passing of the hours. This is a place where the social architecture is held together by the gravity of long-standing family lines and the deliberate pace of a life lived close to the earth, far removed from the frantic acceleration of the urban centers to the west.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Tar River Land Conservancy Preserve (Conservation Area) — 2.9 mi, 271° W
Sandy Creek Game Land (State Conservation Area) — 2.9 mi, 017° N
Shocco Creek Game Land (State Conservation Area) — 7.0 mi, 005° N
Unknown Park (Local Conservation Area) — 8.8 mi, 148° SE
Ennis Park (Local Recreation) — 9.3 mi, 110° E
Medoc Mountain State Park (State Park) — 12.4 mi, 043° NE
Vollmer Farms (Attraction) — 13.3 mi, 224° SW
Jones Performing Arts Center, Louisburg College Auditorium (Theatre) — 13.4 mi, 277° W
Confederate Memorial Drinking Fountain (Monument) — 13.6 mi, 275° W
Medoc Mountain Canoe & Kayak access (Attraction) — 15.4 mi, 038° NE
Wildwood Park (Local Park) — 16.1 mi, 126° SE
Martin Luther King Jr. (Monument) — 17.9 mi, 120° SE
The Country Doctor Museum (Museum) — 21.2 mi, 190° S
Country Doctor Museum (Museum) — 21.3 mi, 190° S
Mitchell Mill State Natural Area (State Park) — 21.5 mi, 240° SW
Hill Ridge Farms (Attraction) — 21.9 mi, 258° W
Wake County Open Space Land (Local Recreation) — 22.4 mi, 221° SW
Dr. L. Julian Haywood (Monument) — 22.6 mi, 345° N
Haunted Forest At Panic Point (Attraction) — 22.8 mi, 261° W
Reminiscing (Public Artwork) — 24.3 mi, 309° NW
Wilson Theatre (Theatre) — 25.9 mi, 161° S
Barnes Corner Gallery (Gallery) — 26.0 mi, 162° S
Wake Forest Art & Frame Gallery (Gallery) — 26.3 mi, 254° W
Wake Forest Renaissance Centre (Arts Centre) — 26.3 mi, 254° W
Aquarium Outfitters Carolina (Aquarium) — 26.7 mi, 253° W
Kerr Lake State Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 28.5 mi, 324° NW
Marquee Cinemas (Cinema) — 28.8 mi, 251° W
It's A Zoo Life (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 29.6 mi, 133° SE
Falls Lake State Recreation Area (State Recreation Area) — 32.2 mi, 260° W
Roanoke River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 48.7 mi, 101° E · 43k acres

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