Explore Harrellsville, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Harrellsville, 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 Harrellsville.
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 | Harrellsville |
| State | North Carolina (NC) |
| County | Hertford County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 36.302656 |
| Longitude | -76.792453 |
| Population | 85 |
| Density | 113.2 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 27942 |
| Area Code | 919, 984 |
| County Seat | Winton |
| School District | Hertford County Schools |
Harrellsville occupies a quiet expanse of land where the flat, fertile fields of the coastal plain begin to transition toward the subtle lift of the interior. It lies 30.2 miles west of Elizabeth City, NC (from Elizabeth City, NC: bearing 271°T), and is situated 10.8 miles east of Ahoskie. The horizon remains wide and unobstructed, save for the dark, serrated silhouette of Chestnut Ridge that haunts the western distance like a long-forgotten memory. Nearby, the water of Long Branch carves a slow, deliberate path through the earth, feeding the moisture-heavy soil that sustains the dense, tangled thickets of Chowan Swamp Game Land. Sunlight here possesses a particular, honeyed thickness in the late afternoon, illuminating the dust motes that drift above the fallow rows and casting long, melancholic shadows across the clay-rich earth.
Harrellsville retains the character of an older settlement, defined by the slow persistence of agricultural cycles that have dictated the rhythm of daily life for generations. The economy remains tethered to the productivity of the surrounding acreage, where the cultivation of crops provides a steady, if modest, pulse to the region. Three miles away, the quiet surface of Taylor Millpond serves as a mirror for the changing seasons, providing a singular point of stillness in a landscape defined by the industry of the plow. The legacy of the place is not found in grand monuments, but in the enduring wooden frames of dwellings that have weathered countless summers, standing as sturdy, silent witnesses to the passage of time in this corner of the state.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Harrellsville, North Carolina. Coordinates: 36.302656, -76.792453. 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 Harrellsville includes the ZIP code (27942), telephone area code (919, 984), county seat of Hertford County (Winton), and school district assignment (Hertford 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 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. |