Gold Hill North Carolina Map
Explore Gold Hill, 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 Gold Hill, North Carolina
How to Use This Gold Hill, North Carolina Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Gold Hill, 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 Gold Hill.
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 | Gold Hill |
| State | North Carolina (NC) |
| County | Rowan County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 35.518597 |
| Longitude | -80.347491 |
| Population | 372 |
| Density | 57.7 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 28386, 27025, 28071 |
| Area Code | 336, 704, 980 |
| County Seat | Salisbury |
| School District | Rowan-Salisbury Schools |
About Gold Hill, North Carolina
Gold Hill is a locality in Rowan County, North Carolina, United States. It is a small community with a population of 372. The population density is 57.7 people per km². Gold Hill is located at 35.5186°N, 80.3475°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 28386, 27025, 28071.Gold Hill occupies a modest, sun-drenched plateau where the earth holds a quiet, metallic memory beneath its red-clay skin. It lies 12.9 miles southeast of Salisbury, NC (from Salisbury, NC: bearing 143°T), and is situated 8.8 miles southeast of Granite Quarry. Riles Creek carves a shallow, meandering path through the terrain, its waters reflecting the heavy, humid silence of the Piedmont afternoons. Here, the landscape does not rise to meet the distant Appalachian Mountains, but instead stretches out in quiet fields and dense, tangled woodlands that soften the sharp edges of the horizon. At dusk, the light catches the dust motes suspended in the thick air, casting a copper glow over the Historic Gold Hill and Mines Foundation Preserve, where the silent shafts and forgotten machinery suggest a land that has long since folded its secrets back into the bedrock.
Gold Hill preserves the remnants of an era when the promise of fortune drove men to tear deep into the quartz-veined earth, transforming a quiet wilderness into a bustling center of industry. While the frantic clatter of the nineteenth-century stamping mills has faded, the local economy now favors the slow, deliberate pace of restoration and the quiet stewardship of its heritage. The remnants of the old tunnels remain as hollow monuments to those early laborers, standing in stark contrast to the nearby tranquility of Ritchies Lake, which mirrors the vast, unbroken sky. Life in Gold Hill moves with a steady, unforced cadence, defined by the preservation of wooden storefronts and the watchful care of those who maintain the legacy of a place once defined by the weight of heavy, glinting ore.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Historic Gold Hill and Mines Foundation Preserve (Conservation Area) — 0.4 mi, 150° SE
- Three Rivers Land Trust Preserve - Gold Hill Rail Trail (Conservation Area) — 0.7 mi, 176° S
- Town of Rockwell Open Space (Local Recreation) — 3.8 mi, 296° NW
- Town of Richfield - Richfield Park (Local Recreation) — 5.2 mi, 123° SE
- Alcoa Game Land (State Conservation Area) — 5.2 mi, 009° N
- Gravity Hill - Folklore Destination (Attraction) — 7.3 mi, 052° NE
- T.M Stanback Barnyard (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 8.1 mi, 359° N
- Foltz Steel Bridge (Monument) — 8.2 mi, 358° N
- Scenic Lookout (Viewpoint) — 9.1 mi, 096° E
- Uwharrie National Forest (National Forest) — 9.9 mi, 092° E · 52k acres
- Davidson County Open Space (Local Park) — 11.0 mi, 023° NE
- Soldier Monument (Monument) — 12.1 mi, 324° NW
- Maine Monument (Monument) — 12.1 mi, 324° NW
- Sound Money Museum (Museum) — 13.5 mi, 285° W
- Stanly County Museum (Museum) — 14.3 mi, 144° SE
- Morrow Mountain State Park (State Park) — 15.2 mi, 119° SE
- The Icon (Public Artwork) — 15.5 mi, 240° SW
- Music Hall (Theatre) — 16.3 mi, 074° E
- Millbridge Speedway (Stadium) — 17.4 mi, 302° NW
- Morrow Mountain Native American Quarry Site (Historic Ruins) — 18.4 mi, 129° SE
- Second Creek Game Land (State Conservation Area) — 18.4 mi, 306° NW
- Lexington Cinema 8 (Cinema) — 21.5 mi, 016° N
- Davidson County Historical Museum (Museum) — 21.8 mi, 014° N
- Lazy 5 Ranch (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 22.2 mi, 289° W
- Birkhead Mountains Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 22.5 mi, 077° E · 5,216 acres
- Barnes Creek Falls (Attraction) — 22.9 mi, 096° E
- Kids Jungle Playground (Theme Park) — 23.5 mi, 244° SW
- Textile Heritage Center (Museum) — 23.6 mi, 330° NW
- Pee Dee National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 31.8 mi, 151° SE · 17k acres
- Carolina Sandhills National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 58.2 mi, 174° S · 92k acres
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About This Gold Hill Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Gold Hill, North Carolina. Coordinates: 35.518597, -80.347491. 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 Gold Hill includes the ZIP code (28386, 27025, 28071), telephone area code (336, 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 generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |
