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Foxfire North Carolina Map

Explore Foxfire, 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 Foxfire, North Carolina

How to Use This Foxfire, North Carolina Map

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

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

Latitude	35.178492
Longitude	-79.562976
Population	1,288
Density	70.5 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Codes	28333, 27281
Area Code	704, 980, 336
County Seat	Goldsboro
School District	Moore County Schools

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About Foxfire, North Carolina

Foxfire is a locality in Wayne County, North Carolina, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,288. The population density is 70.5 people per km². Foxfire is located at 35.1785°N, 79.5630°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Foxfire is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 28333, 27281.

Foxfire emerges from the gentle rise of the piedmont, where the soil holds the deep, rusted color of iron and the pines stand in disciplined, needle-shadowed rows. It lies 6.3 miles south of Goldsboro, NC (from Goldsboro, NC: bearing 189°T), and is situated 7.5 miles north-northeast of Mount Olive. The land here does not rush toward any horizon, but instead settles into a quiet, terrestrial patience, marked by the slow, seasonal pulse of the woods and the unassuming path of Poplar Branch as it carves a shallow vein through the loam. At dusk, the light loses its sharp edge, diffusing into a soft, amber haze that clings to the bark of the longleaf pines and turns the cooling air into something tactile, almost heavy with the scent of damp earth and coming night.

Foxfire maintains a deliberate distance from the clamor of the wider world, favoring a stillness that seems to have been cultivated over generations of agrarian and suburban transition. Beyond the immediate boundaries of the residences, the landscape bears the quiet marks of a long history, occasionally inviting reflection on the deeper shifts in the region that resonate as far as the Wayne County - Goldsborough Bridge Battlefield. While the economy has evolved from the early reliance on the land's raw yield, the residents remain connected to the rhythmic cycles of the interior, perhaps finding a momentary, mirroring stillness in the distant, glassy surface of Sleepy Creek Lake Upper. Life here is defined not by grand monuments, but by the steady, predictable turning of the days, where the primary labor of the afternoon is simply to observe the way the shadows lengthen across the grass.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Sandhills Game Land (State Conservation Area) — 1.3 mi, 162° S
Southern Conservation Trust Preserve (Conservation Area) — 3.3 mi, 011° N
Moore County Park (Local Park) — 4.8 mi, 066° NE
Three Rivers Land Trust Preserve (Conservation Area) — 5.4 mi, 292° W
Carolina Philharmonic (Arts Centre) — 5.4 mi, 077° E
Naked Creek Atlantic White Cedar Stand Registered Heritage Area (State Conservation Area) — 6.6 mi, 215° SW
Town of Aberdeen - Aberdeen Lake Park (Local Recreation) — 7.5 mi, 109° E
Union Station Railroad Museum (Museum) — 8.3 mi, 113° SE
Sandhills Gamelands (State Resource Management Area) — 8.7 mi, 158° S
Town of Southern Pines - Reservoir Park (Local Recreation) — 8.8 mi, 075° E
Weymouth Woods-Sandhills Nature Preserve (State Park) — 9.2 mi, 107° E
WWII Memorial (Monument) — 9.4 mi, 071° E
Falls Overlook Structure (Viewpoint) — 9.5 mi, 071° E
Creation Museum (Museum) — 9.7 mi, 091° E
OA Museum (Museum) — 11.0 mi, 004° N
Rankin Museum of American Heritage (Museum) — 13.5 mi, 237° SW
Uwharrie National Forest (National Forest) — 13.8 mi, 288° W · 52k acres
ARTworks Vass (Gallery) — 16.8 mi, 071° E
Town Creek Indian Mound State Historic Site (Historic Ruins) — 20.7 mi, 271° W
Lumber River State Park (State Park) — 20.7 mi, 145° SE
Duty Honor Country (Monument) — 21.4 mi, 200° S
Pee Dee National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 25.3 mi, 259° W · 17k acres
Riverdale and Ingram Plantation (Monument) — 28.1 mi, 240° SW
Barnes Creek Falls (Attraction) — 30.0 mi, 315° NW
The Highlander (Public Artwork) — 30.6 mi, 172° S
Enterprise Cotton Mill (Historic Ruins) — 32.0 mi, 355° N
Ostrich Eggs (Attraction) — 32.7 mi, 341° N
Red Springs Historical Museum (Museum) — 33.5 mi, 139° SE
Parkton Animal Oasis (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 35.3 mi, 120° SE
Cheraw Center for Performing Arts (Arts Centre) — 37.9 mi, 209° SW

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