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Light Oak North Carolina Map

Explore Light Oak, 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 Light Oak, North Carolina

How to Use This Light Oak, North Carolina Map

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

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	Light Oak
State	North Carolina (NC)
County	Cleveland County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	35.284853
Longitude	-81.476755
Population	697
Density	187.3 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	28152, 28150
Area Code	704, 980
County Seat	Shelby
School District	Cleveland County Schools

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About Light Oak, North Carolina

Light Oak is a locality in Cleveland County, North Carolina, United States. It is a small community with a population of 697. The population density is 187.3 people per km². Light Oak is located at 35.2849°N, 81.4768°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 28152, 28150.

Light Oak emerges from the Piedmont landscape as a quiet assembly of red clay and hardwoods, defined by the slow, deliberate movement of the earth toward the distant, hazy silhouette of the Blue Ridge Mountains. It lies 3.4 miles east of Shelby, NC (from Shelby, NC: bearing 99°T), and is situated 8.1 miles west-northwest of Kings Mountain. The air here holds a particular, heavy stillness, especially in the late afternoon when the sun catches the iron-rich soil of the fields, turning the ground a deep, burnished copper that glows beneath the canopy. Buffalo Creek snakes through the low-lying timber nearby, its waters dark and steady as they trace the perimeter of the town, while the expansive surface of Kings Mountain Reservoir remains a mirror for the shifting clouds, offering a cool relief to the humid heat of the mid-summer months.

Industry in Light Oak has long been tethered to the rhythmic output of the loom and the soil, echoing the labor of those who first cleared these thickets to plant rows of tobacco and grain. The local economy persists in this legacy, trading the clamor of past textile mills for a more measured pace of modern commerce that respects the slow, deliberate pulse of the region. Residents often spend their weekends at the City of Kings Mountain - Moss Lake Park, where the dense shade of the oaks provides a sanctuary from the demands of the day, and the proximity to the broader, rolling terrain toward Love Valley invites a quiet appreciation for the vast, inland geography. Life in Light Oak retains a grounded character, marked by a polite, steady resilience that suggests the inhabitants are as enduring as the sturdy timber for which the place is named.

Nearby Outdoor Places

City of Kings Mountain - Moss Lake Park (Local Recreation) — 1.6 mi, 102° E
Holly Oak Park (Local Park) — 3.0 mi, 251° W
City of Shelby - Hanna Park (Local Recreation) — 3.8 mi, 311° NW
Shelby City Park (Local Park) — 4.4 mi, 281° W
Little Theater (Theatre) — 7.8 mi, 127° SE
Tryon Resolves (Monument) — 9.5 mi, 067° NE
Crowders Mountain State Park (State Park) — 10.0 mi, 145° SE
Boulders Overlook (Viewpoint) — 10.0 mi, 139° SE
Kings Mountain State Park (State Park) — 10.0 mi, 146° SE
Hoover Monument (Monument) — 11.2 mi, 153° SE
Major Willian Chronicle (Monument) — 11.2 mi, 150° SE
Blacksburg (Public Artwork) — 11.5 mi, 191° S
Jolly Park Amphitheater (Theatre) — 17.2 mi, 213° SW
Former site of Deepcore and The Abyss Movie Set (Historic Ruins) — 17.3 mi, 187° S
Gaffney Visitors Center & Art Gallery (Attraction) — 17.3 mi, 214° SW
Lake Cherokee (State Recreation Area) — 17.3 mi, 199° S
Truck (Attraction) — 17.7 mi, 214° SW
Cherokee County Veterans Museum (Museum) — 17.7 mi, 214° SW
Lincoln County Museum of History (Museum) — 18.1 mi, 044° NE
South Mountains Game Land (State Conservation Area) — 20.2 mi, 334° NW
Caboose (Attraction) — 20.9 mi, 285° W
Worth Mountain Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 21.3 mi, 179° S
Wesley Methodist Episcopal Church (Historic Ruins) — 21.7 mi, 189° S
F-4 Phantom II (Attraction) — 29.4 mi, 098° E
Catawba County Historical Museum (Museum) — 29.8 mi, 029° NE
Historic Newton Depot (Museum) — 30.5 mi, 028° NE
Newton Depot Equipment Pavilion (Museum) — 30.6 mi, 028° NE
Sumter National Forest (National Forest) — 36.0 mi, 175° S · 375k acres
Pisgah National Forest (National Forest) — 36.9 mi, 319° NW · 511k acres
Linville Gorge Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 43.2 mi, 329° NW · 12k acres

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