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Fairfield Harbour North Carolina Map

Explore Fairfield Harbour, 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 Fairfield Harbour, North Carolina

How to Use This Fairfield Harbour, North Carolina Map

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

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	Fairfield Harbour
State	North Carolina (NC)
County	Craven County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	35.076549
Longitude	-76.963555
Population	2,767
Density	371.2 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	28560
Area Code	910
County Seat	New Bern
School District	Craven County Schools

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About Fairfield Harbour, North Carolina

Fairfield Harbour is a locality in Craven County, North Carolina, United States. It has a population of approximately 2,767. The population density is 371.2 people per km². Fairfield Harbour is located at 35.0765°N, 76.9636°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 28560.

Fairfield Harbour emerges from the low-country landscape as a confluence of quiet water and disciplined greenery, where the atmosphere holds a heavy, humid stillness that softens the edges of the horizon. It lies 5.1 miles east-southeast of New Bern, NC (from New Bern, NC: bearing 116°T), and is situated 7.5 miles southeast of Forest. Northwest Creek winds through the terrain, its dark, brackish depths reflecting the towering pines that stand guard over the shoreline, while the nearby Neuse River Game Land provides a sprawling sanctuary of dense brush and marshy undergrowth. Light here possesses a peculiar, amber quality at dusk, filtering through the needles of the woods to cast long, skeletal shadows across the manicured lawns and paved lanes. Beyond the immediate canopy, the silhouette of Davis Ridge remains an absent ghost, leaving the flat, expansive earth to surrender entirely to the influence of the tides and the rhythmic, unseen pulse of the coast twenty-one miles away.

Fairfield Harbour functions as a deliberate retreat, its economy and pace defined by the presence of the Northwest Creek Marina, where the masts of moored vessels rattle in a syncopated percussion against the wind. The history of the region is whispered in the shifting sediments of the soil and the proximity of the sprawling Croatan National Forest, a vast wilderness that keeps the modern world at a respectful distance. Residents find their orientation in the proximity of Cypress Lake or the distant, quiet stretches of Marsh Island, places where the land feels reclaimed by the slow, relentless insistence of the water. Life in Fairfield Harbour moves with the tide, an existence shaped by the maintenance of docks and the quiet observation of migratory birds, creating a culture that values the steady, predictable cycle of the seasons over the frantic velocity of the inland cities.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Neuse River Game Land (State Conservation Area) — 0.6 mi, 351° N
New Bern Civil War Battlefield Park (Registered Battlefield) — 3.6 mi, 236° SW
Craven County - Creekside Park (Local Recreation) — 4.0 mi, 257° W
Spider Lady (Monument) — 4.5 mi, 294° NW
USRC Diligence (Monument) — 4.5 mi, 295° NW
U.S.C.G.C. Pamlico (Monument) — 4.6 mi, 295° NW
Sudan Shriners (Public Artwork) — 4.6 mi, 298° NW
New Bern Firemen's Museum (Museum) — 4.9 mi, 297° NW
City of New Bern - Lawson Creek Park (Local Recreation) — 5.0 mi, 290° W
Lawson Creek Nature Preserve (Local Conservation Area) — 5.0 mi, 290° W
Croatan Game Land (Marine Protected Area) — 5.0 mi, 189° S
Croatan National Forest (National Forest) — 5.0 mi, 189° S · 162k acres
North Carolina Coastal Land Trust - Brices Creek Preserve (Conservation Area) — 5.7 mi, 217° SW
Bear Town Cinema (Cinema) — 7.0 mi, 281° W
Neuse Boulevard Cinema (Cinema) — 7.0 mi, 294° NW
Sheep Ridge Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 9.4 mi, 204° SW · 9,315 acres
Light Ground Pocosin Game Land (State Conservation Area) — 9.8 mi, 087° E
Catfish Lake South Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 12.8 mi, 222° SW · 8,490 acres
Oriental's History Museum (Museum) — 15.6 mi, 102° E
Aurora Fossil Museum (Museum) — 18.6 mi, 032° NE
Golfin Dolphin Golf Plane (Attraction) — 26.9 mi, 193° S
Carteret County Museum of History (Museum) — 27.0 mi, 155° SE
Carteret County Historical Society (Museum) — 28.2 mi, 150° SE
Battle Works - Tactical Laser Tag (Attraction) — 28.5 mi, 155° SE
Morehead City Waterfront (Attraction) — 28.5 mi, 150° SE
Lookout Cruises (Attraction) — 30.2 mi, 146° SE
Cape Lookout National Seashore (National Lakeshore) — 31.5 mi, 147° SE · 41k acres
Cedar Island National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 32.9 mi, 108° E · 43k acres
MCAS New River Theater (Theatre) — 36.6 mi, 228° SW
1812 Lighthouse Foundation Ruins (Historic Ruins) — 40.1 mi, 141° SE

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