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Clarkton North Carolina Map

Explore Clarkton, 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 Clarkton, North Carolina

How to Use This Clarkton, North Carolina Map

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

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

Latitude	34.487392
Longitude	-78.656126
Population	614
Density	190.3 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	28433
Area Code	910
County Seat	Elizabethtown
School District	Bladen County Schools

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About Clarkton, North Carolina

Clarkton is a locality in Bladen County, North Carolina, United States. It is a small community with a population of 614. The population density is 190.3 people per km². Clarkton is located at 34.4874°N, 78.6561°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Clarkton is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 28433.

Clarkton occupies a quiet stretch of land defined by the flat, fertile horizons of the coastal plain, where the earth holds the dark, damp memory of ancient forests. It lies 22.0 miles east-southeast of Lumberton, NC (from Lumberton, NC: bearing 114°T), and is situated 8.3 miles east-southeast of Bladenboro. The air here carries a heavy, humid stillness that seems to press against the pines, grounding the landscape in a deep, earthen silence. Only a mile away, the sluggish, tea-colored waters of Brown Marsh Swamp meander through the underbrush, carving a slow, deliberate path through the vegetation. To the west, the distant, hazy silhouette of Long Ridge marks the limit of the sky, a reminder of the elevation that lies far beyond these low-lying fields. On temperate afternoons, the light hits the soil with a golden, syrupy clarity, illuminating the dust that rises from the backroads and settles upon the leaves of the nearby Bladen County Open Space.

Clarkton traces its internal rhythm to the cycles of the harvest, shaped by generations of laboring in the surrounding fields where the soil yields its bounty to those who know its temper. The economy remains tethered to these agrarian roots, moving at a pace dictated by the seasons rather than the frantic ticking of a clock. While the bustle of larger centers feels a world away, the character of the place is found in the modest storefronts and the steady, unadorned work that sustains the families who have lived here for decades. Life in Clarkton flows with a certain predictable grace, punctuated by the occasional excursion to the quiet banks of Clark Millpond or the deeper, verdant reaches of Bladen Lakes State Forest. It is a place that does not demand attention, preferring instead to exist in the steady, rhythmic pulse of a life lived close to the ground and well away from the noise of the wider world.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Bladen County Open Space (Local Conservation Area) — 0.6 mi, 016° N
White Marsh Swamp Preserve (Conservation Area) — 7.7 mi, 193° S
Audubon Environmental Land Trust Preserve (Conservation Area) — 9.3 mi, 018° N
Town of Elizabethtown Park (Local Recreation) — 10.3 mi, 015° N
Bladen Lakes State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 10.6 mi, 046° NE
City of Whiteville - Whiteville City Park (Local Recreation) — 10.9 mi, 189° S
Whitehall Plantation Game Land (State Conservation Area) — 12.7 mi, 080° E
Lake Waccamaw State Park (State Park) — 13.1 mi, 153° SE
Lumber River State Park (State Park) — 14.4 mi, 276° W
North Carolina Safe Harbor Agreement - Red-cockaded Woodpecker (State Conservation Area) — 16.4 mi, 052° NE
The Farmer's Barn (Attraction) — 18.7 mi, 210° SW
Griffin's Whirl (Viewpoint) — 20.6 mi, 251° W
The County Farm Museum (Museum) — 29.7 mi, 218° SW
Patriot (Grady) Monument (Attraction) — 31.0 mi, 094° E
Loyalist Monument (Attraction) — 31.1 mi, 094° E
Stage Road Monument (Attraction) — 31.1 mi, 093° E
Parkton Animal Oasis (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 36.6 mi, 326° NW
Red Springs Historical Museum (Museum) — 37.1 mi, 307° NW
Howitzer (Monument) — 37.6 mi, 333° NW
South Carolina Tobacco Museum (Museum) — 39.3 mi, 240° SW
North Carolina Marble Co (Monument) — 39.4 mi, 031° NE
Independent Light Infantry Museum (Museum) — 41.2 mi, 342° N
Edgar Allen Poe's House (Museum) — 41.4 mi, 341° N
Ghost Tower (Monument) — 41.5 mi, 341° N
Cook Quad Sculpture (Public Artwork) — 42.6 mi, 342° N
Live Oak Bank Pavilion (Theatre) — 43.5 mi, 112° E
Wilma W. Daniels Gallery (Gallery) — 43.8 mi, 112° E
Cape Fear Serpentarium (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 44.0 mi, 113° SE
Waccamaw National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 50.3 mi, 206° SW · 35k acres
North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 50.9 mi, 118° SE

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