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Faith North Carolina Map

Explore Faith, 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 Faith, North Carolina

How to Use This Faith, North Carolina Map

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

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.

CityFaith
StateNorth Carolina (NC)
CountyRowan County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneEastern Time (America/New_York)
Latitude35.587084
Longitude-80.462838
Population819
Density301.7 /km²
IncorporatedYes
ZIP Code28041
Area Code704, 980
County SeatSalisbury
School DistrictRowan-Salisbury Schools

About Faith, North Carolina

Faith is a locality in Rowan County, North Carolina, United States. It is a small community with a population of 819. The population density is 301.7 people per km². Faith is located at 35.5871°N, 80.4628°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Faith is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 28041.

Faith emerges from the red-clay piedmont as a quiet assembly of rooftops and steeples, anchored by the slow, deliberate movement of the sun across the canopy. It lies 5.8 miles south of Salisbury, NC (from Salisbury, NC: bearing 174°T), and is situated 6.8 miles east of China Grove. The landscape around Faith maintains a steady, rhythmic incline, marked by the persistent, thin veins of Church Creek that carve through the thickets and soil just a mile from the center. Beyond the immediate clearings, the land swells toward the distant, hazy blue silhouettes of the Appalachian Mountains, which haunt the western horizon like a memory of stone. Within the town limits, Faith Park serves as the primary green lung, a space where the air often carries the heavy, humid scent of pine needles and damp earth, grounding the quiet intervals between the passing of seasons.

Industry in Faith has long been tethered to the steady pulse of regional trade and the legacy of agricultural persistence, though the modern rhythm is defined more by the collective work of neighbors than by the heavy machinery of the past. Life here moves with a particular gravity, shaped by the local adherence to tradition and the seasonal cycles that govern the fields and the woodlots alike. Eight miles distant, the waters of Lake Fisher hold the sky in a mirror of gray and bruised gold, offering a stillness that mirrors the temperament of the people who dwell nearby. It is a place where the light at dusk settles heavy and amber against the brickwork, revealing a landscape that does not demand attention but instead waits for the traveler to notice the quiet integrity of its slow-turning days.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Faith Park (Local Park) — 0.4 mi, 128° SE
  • Town of Faith - Faith Jaycee Ballpark (Local Recreation) — 0.5 mi, 137° SE
  • Granite Lake Park (Local Park) — 2.2 mi, 028° NE
  • Dunn's Mountain Park (Local Recreation) — 3.2 mi, 037° NE
  • Three Rivers Land Trust Preserve - Dunns Mountain (Conservation Area) — 3.2 mi, 037° NE
  • Soldier Monument (Monument) — 5.0 mi, 352° N
  • Maine Monument (Monument) — 5.0 mi, 352° N
  • Three Rivers Land Trust Preserve (Conservation Area) — 5.9 mi, 314° NW
  • Patriot’s Flag Concourse (Monument) — 6.2 mi, 001° N
  • Alcoa Game Land (State Conservation Area) — 6.4 mi, 052° NE
  • Town of Spencer - Fred and Alice Stanback Educational Forest and Nature Preserve (Local Conservation Area) — 6.7 mi, 007° N
  • Sound Money Museum (Museum) — 6.7 mi, 260° W
  • T.M Stanback Barnyard (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 7.2 mi, 062° NE
  • Millbridge Speedway (Stadium) — 9.4 mi, 299° NW
  • Second Creek Game Land (State Conservation Area) — 10.4 mi, 305° NW
  • Gravity Hill - Folklore Destination (Attraction) — 12.2 mi, 091° E
  • The Icon (Public Artwork) — 14.3 mi, 209° SW
  • Lazy 5 Ranch (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 14.7 mi, 280° W
  • Textile Heritage Center (Museum) — 16.6 mi, 342° N
  • Scenic Lookout (Viewpoint) — 16.6 mi, 110° E
  • Uwharrie National Forest (National Forest) — 17.2 mi, 107° E · 52k acres
  • Carolina Theatre (Theatre) — 20.0 mi, 036° NE
  • Davidson County Historical Museum (Museum) — 20.1 mi, 036° NE
  • Lexington Cinema 8 (Cinema) — 20.2 mi, 038° NE
  • Fairhaven Theatre (Theatre) — 20.3 mi, 238° SW
  • Da Vinci Flying Machine (Attraction) — 20.3 mi, 238° SW
  • Trebuchet (Attraction) — 20.3 mi, 238° SW
  • Toddlers Swan Swing (Attraction) — 20.4 mi, 238° SW
  • Morrow Mountain State Park (State Park) — 23.2 mi, 122° SE
  • Birkhead Mountains Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 28.5 mi, 089° E · 5,216 acres

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About This Faith Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Faith, North Carolina. Coordinates: 35.587084, -80.462838. 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 Faith includes the ZIP code (28041), telephone area code (704, 980), county seat of Rowan County (Salisbury), and school district assignment (Rowan-Salisbury 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.