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Creston North Carolina Map

Explore Creston, 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 Creston, North Carolina

How to Use This Creston, North Carolina Map

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

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

Latitude	36.427901
Longitude	-81.62372
Population	480
Density	12.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	28615
Area Code	828
County Seat	Jefferson

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About Creston, North Carolina

Creston is a locality in Ashe County, North Carolina, United States. It is a small community with a population of 480. The population density is 12.0 people per km². Creston is located at 36.4279°N, 81.6237°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 28615.

Creston occupies a rugged corridor where the earth rises in slow, deliberate swells toward the horizon. It lies 14.9 miles north of Boone, NC (from Boone, NC: bearing 11°T), and is situated 10.6 miles east-southeast of Mountain City. Three Top Creek traces a serpentine path through the lowlands, its waters cutting a cool, clear line through the dense vegetation that clings to the limestone banks. To the west, the distant silhouettes of the Blue Ridge Mountains offer a jagged, violet boundary against the deepening sky, while the nearby Three Top Mountain Game Land provides a vast, untamed expanse of forest that breathes with the stillness of the high country. In the quiet hours of the afternoon, the light filters through the canopy in thin, slanted shafts, illuminating the fine dust that hangs in the air of Peak Cove.

Creston maintains a character forged by the slow, persistent labor of those who have worked the thin soil and timbered these slopes for generations. The economy remains tethered to the land, moving at the pace of the seasons rather than the ticking of a clock, with a history that whispers of agrarian resilience and the quiet preservation of regional tradition. Beyond the immediate fields, the local landscape hides singular wonders like Long Hope Falls, where the water spills over ancient stone, and Lake Ashe, which rests eleven miles away as a mirror for the changing clouds. Life in Creston persists in a state of deliberate simplicity, defined by the sound of the creek over smooth rock and the enduring solitude of the surrounding hills.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Three Top Mountain Game Land (State Conservation Area) — 0.9 mi, 161° S
Elk Knob State Park (State Park) — 1.0 mi, 174° S
Bluff Mountain Preserve (Conservation Area) — 2.7 mi, 141° SE
Bluff Mountain (Conservation Area) — 2.7 mi, 141° SE
Cherokee National Forest (National Forest) — 7.2 mi, 316° NW · 662k acres
North View (Viewpoint) — 7.5 mi, 203° SW
North Cherokee National Forest & Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 8.3 mi, 326° NW
Mount Jefferson State Natural Area (State Park) — 8.3 mi, 099° E
Welcome Center and Museum (Museum) — 10.4 mi, 285° W
Heritage Hall Theater (Theatre) — 10.5 mi, 288° W
Johnson County Veterans Memorial Wall (Monument) — 10.9 mi, 289° W
Jefferson National Forest (National Forest) — 11.0 mi, 002° N · 733k acres
Mount Rogers National Recreation Area (National Recreation Area) — 12.9 mi, 001° N · 155k acres
Lewis Fork Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 14.5 mi, 014° N · 6,075 acres
Common Good Co (Gallery) — 14.8 mi, 193° S
Doc Watson Statue (Public Artwork) — 14.8 mi, 193° S
The Nthº Gallery & Studios (Gallery) — 14.8 mi, 193° S
Hands Gallery (Gallery) — 14.9 mi, 193° S
Earth Day 2011 (Monument) — 15.1 mi, 192° S
I.G. Greer Auditorium (Theatre) — 15.1 mi, 192° S
Historic Dam Site (Historic Ruins) — 15.2 mi, 185° S
Big Pinnacle (Attraction) — 15.3 mi, 024° NE
Hickory Ridge Living History Museum (Museum) — 15.4 mi, 190° S
Another Way (ShortCut) (Monument) — 16.2 mi, 329° NW
Mountain Magic Resort (Attraction) — 16.5 mi, 233° SW
Where Trails Cross (Attraction) — 16.6 mi, 328° NW
Appalachian National Scenic Trail (National Trail) — 16.7 mi, 328° NW · 110k acres
Little Wilson Creek Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 16.8 mi, 026° NE · 5,461 acres
Turtle Island Preserve (Museum) — 17.4 mi, 166° S
Turnpike Cruisers (Attraction) — 17.7 mi, 184° S

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