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Hays North Carolina Map

Explore Hays, 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 Hays, North Carolina

How to Use This Hays, North Carolina Map

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

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

Latitude	36.249854
Longitude	-81.115639
Population	1,595
Density	100.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	28635
Area Code	828
County Seat	Wilkesboro
School District	Wilkes County Schools

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About Hays, North Carolina

Hays is a locality in Wilkes County, North Carolina, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,595. The population density is 100.0 people per km². Hays is located at 36.2499°N, 81.1156°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 28635.

Hays emerges from the landscape as a quiet junction where the clear, steady currents of Camp Branch carve a path through the earth. It lies 31.2 miles east of Boone, NC (from Boone, NC: bearing 86°T), and is situated 6.6 miles north-northeast of North Wilkesboro. The surrounding terrain reveals a complexion of deep, fertile soil and ancient, weathered elevations that define the character of the land. Sunlight often settles heavily here in the late afternoon, casting long, amber shadows across the Wilkes County Open Space that seem to pull the very color from the fields and trees. To the far west, the distant silhouettes of the Blue Ridge Mountains frame the horizon, acting as a constant, stoic sentinel over the local expanse. Near the still, reflective surface of Wilkes Lake, the atmosphere holds a particular density, a stillness that suggests a history older than the fences and roads that now partition the ground.

Hays maintains a connection to a traditional economy that once thrived on the labor of the soil and the loom, echoing the legacy of regional tobacco cultivation and textile production. While the pace of life here is defined by the seasonal turn of the crops and the hum of local industry, there remains a persistent, lyrical quality to the way the days unfold. The proximity to Dark Hollow serves as a reminder of the rugged, secluded geography that shaped the early settlers who first navigated these woods. Today, the local character is marked by a courteous, deliberate manner, a byproduct of generations who learned to measure their success by the quality of their harvest and the strength of their kinship. Even as the modern world encroaches, the quiet rhythm of life in Hays remains tethered to the land, patient and enduring as the water that continues to flow through the valley.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Wilkes County Open Space (Local Park) — 0.0 mi, 167° S
Mulberry Mill Wildlife Conservation Area (State Conservation Area) — 3.2 mi, 253° W
Vfw Park (Local Park) — 5.6 mi, 188° S
Wilkes Art Gallery (Arts Centre) — 5.6 mi, 193° S
Liberty Theatre Cinema (Cinema) — 6.4 mi, 195° S
Stone Mountain State Park (State Park) — 7.1 mi, 017° N
Wilkes Heritage Museum (Museum) — 7.3 mi, 196° S
Thurmond Chatham Game Land (State Conservation Area) — 8.2 mi, 337° NW
Lower Falls (Attraction) — 9.6 mi, 026° NE
Rendezvous Mountain Educational State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 9.8 mi, 260° W
Middle Falls (Attraction) — 10.0 mi, 025° NE
Fish Dam Creek Overlook (Viewpoint) — 10.0 mi, 218° SW
W. Kerr Scott Reservoir (Recreation Area) — 10.0 mi, 218° SW
Widows Falls (Attraction) — 10.5 mi, 014° N
US 21 overlook (Attraction) — 11.4 mi, 042° NE
John Harmon Gallery (Public Artwork) — 12.9 mi, 030° NE
Mountains-to-Sea Trail (State Park) — 13.1 mi, 078° E
Five Ridge Theatre (Theatre) — 15.3 mi, 290° W
Alleghany Community Auditorium (Theatre) — 17.9 mi, 358° N
Crouse's Chimney (Historic Ruins) — 21.2 mi, 042° NE
Vaughn-Woltz Order of the Arrow Campfire Arena Time Capsule (Monument) — 21.5 mi, 044° NE
Laura Foster Memorial (Monument) — 23.1 mi, 233° SW
Turtle Island Preserve (Museum) — 24.6 mi, 259° W
Tractor Brown's Museum (Museum) — 25.7 mi, 108° E
Old Lone Hickory Store (Monument) — 25.9 mi, 121° SE
Thunder Road Museum (Museum) — 28.6 mi, 052° NE
Pisgah National Forest (National Forest) — 30.1 mi, 239° SW · 511k acres
Mount Rogers National Recreation Area (National Recreation Area) — 32.0 mi, 328° NW · 155k acres
Little Wilson Creek Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 32.4 mi, 327° NW · 5,461 acres
Jefferson National Forest (National Forest) — 34.5 mi, 358° N · 733k acres

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