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Deercroft North Carolina Map

Explore Deercroft, 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 Deercroft, North Carolina

How to Use This Deercroft, North Carolina Map

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

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.

CityDeercroft
StateNorth Carolina (NC)
CountyScotland County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneEastern Time (America/New_York)
Latitude34.9592
Longitude-79.4352
Population414
Density123.8 /km²
IncorporatedN/A
ZIP Code28396
Area Code704, 980
County SeatLaurinburg
School DistrictScotland County Schools

About Deercroft, North Carolina

Deercroft is a locality in Scotland County, North Carolina, United States. It is a small community with a population of 414. The population density is 123.8 people per km². Deercroft is located at 34.9592°N, 79.4352°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 28396.

Deercroft occupies a quiet expanse of the inland plains where the earth settles into a tapestry of pine forests and sandy loam. It lies 12.9 miles north of Laurinburg, NC (from Laurinburg, NC: bearing 7°T), and is situated 16.4 miles south of Pinehurst. Hills Creek carves a persistent, narrow path through the landscape, its waters feeding the quiet basin of Dixie Pond just a short distance away. The light here in the late afternoon possesses a heavy, amber quality, catching the needles of loblolly pines until they seem to glow against the deepening slate of the sky. On the distant horizon, the faint, jagged silhouette of Railroad Ridge offers a reminder of the rising elevations far to the west, though the immediate terrain remains defined by the low, steady reach of the regional soil.

Deercroft remains tethered to the rhythms of the land, drawing its character from the proximity of the Sandhills Game Land, which preserves the wild, quiet character of the surrounding woods. Historically, the local economy has turned on the slow, deliberate work of forestry and the cultivation of the surrounding fields, reflecting a legacy of agrarian labor that long predates modern industrial shifts. Life in Deercroft moves with the seasonal cycle of the harvest and the cooling of the air, where the silence of the woods is punctuated only by the distant hum of machinery or the passing of a truck on the backroads. This is a place where the stillness is not an absence of life, but a steady, grounded presence that defines the workday and the evening alike.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Sandhills Game Land (State Conservation Area) — 0.5 mi, 354° N
  • Sandhills Preserve (Conservation Area) — 0.8 mi, 201° S
  • Beaver Dam Creek/Little Muddy Creek Registered Heritage Area (State Conservation Area) — 1.7 mi, 351° N
  • Sandhills Gamelands (State Resource Management Area) — 2.4 mi, 344° N
  • Big Shoe Heel Creek Preserve (Conservation Area) — 2.8 mi, 149° SE
  • Lumber State Natural and Scenic River (State Park) — 3.4 mi, 073° E
  • Lumber River State Park (State Park) — 4.9 mi, 119° SE
  • Moore County Park (Local Park) — 9.7 mi, 350° N
  • Union Station Railroad Museum (Museum) — 11.9 mi, 002° N
  • Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve-Museum (Museum) — 13.5 mi, 016° N
  • Creation Museum (Museum) — 15.1 mi, 009° N
  • Duty Honor Country (Monument) — 15.3 mi, 251° W
  • The Highlander (Public Artwork) — 15.3 mi, 190° S
  • Carolina Philharmonic (Arts Centre) — 16.5 mi, 353° N
  • Red Springs Historical Museum (Museum) — 17.9 mi, 125° SE
  • Falls Overlook Structure (Viewpoint) — 18.2 mi, 006° N
  • WWII Memorial (Monument) — 18.4 mi, 005° N
  • Rankin Museum of American Heritage (Museum) — 20.1 mi, 293° NW
  • ARTworks Vass (Gallery) — 22.3 mi, 023° NE
  • Parkton Animal Oasis (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 23.6 mi, 096° E
  • Howitzer (Monument) — 27.2 mi, 088° E
  • Uwharrie National Forest (National Forest) — 28.1 mi, 314° NW · 52k acres
  • Farm Service Agency Interest Of Sc (National Wildlife Refuge) — 29.3 mi, 236° SW · 452 acres
  • Cheraw Center for Performing Arts (Arts Centre) — 31.2 mi, 235° SW
  • Town Creek Indian Mound State Historic Site (Historic Ruins) — 31.9 mi, 299° NW
  • Cape Fear River Trail (Attraction) — 33.2 mi, 074° E
  • Clark Park Falls (Attraction) — 33.3 mi, 074° E
  • Pee Dee National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 33.5 mi, 287° W · 17k acres
  • Greek Amphitheater (Theatre) — 33.9 mi, 069° E

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About This Deercroft Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Deercroft, North Carolina. Coordinates: 34.9592, -79.4352. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Deercroft includes the ZIP code (28396), telephone area code (704, 980), county seat of Scotland County (Laurinburg), and school district assignment (Scotland County Schools).

Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.

Page generatedSeptember 2026
Location dataSimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API.