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Kelly North Carolina Map

Explore Kelly, 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 Kelly, North Carolina

How to Use This Kelly, North Carolina Map

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

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

Latitude	34.463963
Longitude	-78.310961
Population	446
Density	14.9 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	28448
Area Code	910
County Seat	Elizabethtown
School District	Bladen County Schools

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About Kelly, North Carolina

Kelly is a locality in Bladen County, North Carolina, United States. It is a small community with a population of 446. The population density is 14.9 people per km². Kelly is located at 34.4640°N, 78.3110°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 28448.

Kelly emerges from the flat, pine-shadowed horizon as a quiet gathering of frame houses and open fields where the air carries the heavy, humid scent of damp earth and cooling timber. It lies 21.6 miles northwest of Leland, NC (from Leland, NC: bearing 312°T), and is situated 7.0 miles west of Long View. The landscape surrounding Kelly is defined by a low, sprawling topography that holds the morning mist long after the sun has climbed, while the dark, narrow flow of Worth Canal cuts through the landscape just a mile away, acting as a slow-moving artery for the surrounding woods. To the northwest, the distant silhouette of Beech Island provides a faint, hazy anchor against the sky, grounding the otherwise level expanse of the local terrain. The light here has a way of thickening in the late afternoon, turning the fields a bruised gold and softening the edges of the dense vegetation that dominates the nearby Whitehall Plantation Game Land.

Agriculture remains the quiet pulse of Kelly, grounding the community in the seasonal cycles of planting and harvest that have defined this region for generations. The economy draws its strength from the fertile soil and the sprawling timber tracts that stretch toward the shallow depression of Big Bay, creating a rhythm of labor that values patience over speed. Life in Kelly moves with the deliberate pace of a place that understands its own isolation, far from the frantic hum of modern transit hubs. Beyond the occasional hum of machinery or the shifting of wind through the pines, the silence is profound, broken only by the movement of wildlife venturing out from the cover of the nearby woods. It is a place where the history of the land is measured not in monuments, but in the enduring, stubborn persistence of the crops and the steady, unpretentious work of those who tend them.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Whitehall Plantation Game Land (State Conservation Area) — 1.5 mi, 245° SW
Black River Floodplain Macrosite Fee (Conservation Area) — 2.8 mi, 074° E
Black River Preserve (Conservation Area) — 2.8 mi, 074° E
Town of Sandyfield - Sandyfield Town Park (Local Recreation) — 6.0 mi, 169° S
North Carolina Safe Harbor Agreement - Red-cockaded Woodpecker (State Conservation Area) — 10.6 mi, 344° N
Bladen Lakes State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 10.9 mi, 322° NW
Singletary Lake State Park (State Park) — 11.1 mi, 316° NW
Patriot (Grady) Monument (Attraction) — 11.3 mi, 092° E
Loyalist Monument (Attraction) — 11.3 mi, 092° E
Stage Road Monument (Attraction) — 11.4 mi, 092° E
Moore Monument (Attraction) — 11.4 mi, 092° E
Lake Waccamaw State Park (State Park) — 14.9 mi, 218° SW
Our Heroes (Monument) — 22.7 mi, 075° E
Live Oak Bank Pavilion (Theatre) — 25.4 mi, 126° SE
Wilma W. Daniels Gallery (Gallery) — 25.7 mi, 126° SE
Cape Fear Viewpoint (Viewpoint) — 25.9 mi, 128° SE
Orange Street Landing (Monument) — 26.1 mi, 128° SE
Cape Fear Serpentarium (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 26.1 mi, 128° SE
Hannah Block Historic USO Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 26.2 mi, 127° SE
To the Soldiers of the Confederacy (Monument) — 26.2 mi, 127° SE
Latimer House Museum (Museum) — 26.2 mi, 127° SE
Bellamy Mansion Museum of History & Design Arts (Museum) — 26.2 mi, 127° SE
Mayfaire 16 Cinema (Cinema) — 31.3 mi, 119° SE
Bottle Chapel (Public Artwork) — 32.5 mi, 122° SE
North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 33.6 mi, 131° SE
Wrightsville Beach Museum of History (Museum) — 33.6 mi, 120° SE
Amphitheater (Theatre) — 33.7 mi, 121° SE
Masonboro Island Estuarine Reserve Dedicated Nature Preserve (Marine Protected Area) — 33.7 mi, 129° SE
Waccamaw National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 60.3 mi, 223° SW · 35k acres
Croatan National Forest (National Forest) — 68.0 mi, 066° NE · 162k acres

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