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Cliffside North Carolina Map

Explore Cliffside, 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 Cliffside, North Carolina

How to Use This Cliffside, North Carolina Map

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

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

Latitude	35.248003
Longitude	-81.765287
Population	530
Density	87.9 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	28024, 28114
Area Code	704, 980
County Seat	Rutherfordton
School District	Rutherford County Schools

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About Cliffside, North Carolina

Cliffside is a locality in Rutherford County, North Carolina, United States. It is a small community with a population of 530. The population density is 87.9 people per km². Cliffside is located at 35.2480°N, 81.7653°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 28024, 28114.

Cliffside occupies a slow-moving bend in the Piedmont, where the Second Broad River cuts a persistent, muddy channel through the red clay and tangled kudzu. It lies 13.7 miles west-southwest of Shelby, NC (from Shelby, NC: bearing 254°T), and is situated 8.5 miles southeast of Forest City. The air here holds a heavy, damp stillness, particularly in the humid afternoons when the light turns the color of burnt honey and catches the dust rising from the unpaved edges of the roads. To the west, the distant, hazy silhouette of the Blue Ridge Mountains anchors the horizon, though the immediate terrain is defined by low, stubborn rises and thickets of pine that seem to absorb the sound of passing traffic. Only two miles distant, the quiet surface of Mount Pleasant Fishing Lake mirrors the sky, a glassy interruption in a landscape defined by the steady, unceasing work of the river.

Industry once defined the physical character of Cliffside, as the towering brick structures of the textile mills dictated the daily movements of every resident, organizing life around the rhythm of the whistle and the hum of the looms. Though the looms have long since fallen silent, the village retains the architectural evidence of that era, with rows of utilitarian cottages standing as quiet observers of a shifting local economy. The social pulse of the region moves toward the open spaces of Rutherford County - Chase Community Park, where the remnants of a hardworking past transition into the quietude of a modern, rural afternoon. Life in Cliffside persists with a measured, deliberate pace, characterized by the persistent gravity of the land and the memory of the labor that once moved through its veins.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Rutherford County - Chase Community Park (Local Recreation) — 2.6 mi, 330° NW
Broad River Greenway (Local Recreation) — 3.8 mi, 111° E
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 5.6 mi, 090° E
Cowpens Monument (Monument) — 8.2 mi, 201° S
Washington Light Infantry (Monument) — 8.3 mi, 200° S
Caboose (Attraction) — 8.8 mi, 333° NW
Summey Park (Local Park) — 8.9 mi, 319° NW
Lake Thicketty (State Recreation Area) — 11.4 mi, 185° S
Gaffney Visitors Center & Art Gallery (Attraction) — 13.6 mi, 151° SE
Cherokee County Veterans Museum (Museum) — 13.6 mi, 152° SE
Truck (Attraction) — 13.7 mi, 152° SE
Jolly Park Amphitheater (Theatre) — 13.7 mi, 150° SE
Veterans Monument (Monument) — 16.2 mi, 187° S
Blacksburg (Public Artwork) — 16.6 mi, 122° SE
South Mountains Game Land (State Conservation Area) — 19.4 mi, 008° N
District 7 Fine Arts Center (Theatre) — 19.7 mi, 199° S
Former site of Deepcore and The Abyss Movie Set (Historic Ruins) — 20.4 mi, 136° SE
Kings Mountain State Park (State Park) — 22.3 mi, 113° SE
Spartanburg Science Center (Museum) — 22.4 mi, 205° SW
Chapman Cultural Center (Arts Centre) — 22.4 mi, 205° SW
Spartanburg Art Museum (Museum) — 22.4 mi, 205° SW
Studio LB (Gallery) — 22.5 mi, 204° SW
Upstate Gallery on Main (Gallery) — 22.6 mi, 204° SW
Ridge Gallery (Gallery) — 22.6 mi, 204° SW
South Mountains State Park (State Park) — 22.7 mi, 014° N
Children's Museum of the Upstate - Spartanburg (Museum) — 22.7 mi, 205° SW
Pisgah National Forest (National Forest) — 31.3 mi, 345° N · 511k acres
Sumter National Forest (National Forest) — 37.8 mi, 156° SE · 375k acres
Linville Gorge Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 39.4 mi, 350° N · 12k acres
Great Smoky Mountains National Park (National Park) — 74.8 mi, 292° W · 521k acres

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