Long Creek North Carolina Map
Explore Long Creek, 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 Long Creek, North Carolina
How to Use This Long Creek, North Carolina Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Long Creek, 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 Long Creek.
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 | Long Creek |
| State | North Carolina (NC) |
| County | Pender County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 34.433991 |
| Longitude | -78.017234 |
| Population | 277 |
| Density | 53.2 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 28457 |
| Area Code | 910 |
| County Seat | Burgaw |
| School District | Pender County Schools |
About Long Creek, North Carolina
Long Creek is a locality in Pender County, North Carolina, United States. It is a small community with a population of 277. The population density is 53.2 people per km². Long Creek is located at 34.4340°N, 78.0172°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 28457.Long Creek breathes under a heavy, humid sky where the scent of salt air drifts inland from the distant coast to mingle with the damp, dark earth of the low-lying pines. It lies 13.0 miles north of Leland, NC (from Leland, NC: bearing 9°T), and is situated 9.0 miles south-southwest of Burgaw. Rileys Creek carves a slow, serpentine path through the landscape, its dark water reflecting the cypress shadows that stretch toward the basin of Jack Bay. Seventeen miles to the west, the faint silhouette of Southwest Ridge marks the horizon, a jagged reminder of the earth’s rise far beyond these flat, marshy lowlands. At dusk, the light here turns a bruised shade of violet, catching the silted banks of the creek and turning the brackish water into a polished, obsidian mirror that holds the silence of the surrounding wetlands.
Long Creek remains defined by the proximity of the Cape Fear River Wetlands Game Land, a vast expanse of sawgrass and tangled brush that dictates the pace of life for those who work the timber or navigate the waterways. The local economy has long leaned on the rhythms of the land and the nearby bounty of Narrow Mouth Cove, where the tides dictate the day's labor. Residents often travel toward the History Trail to traverse the firm ground near The Lake, keeping a tether to the generations who logged these swamps and fished the blackwater currents. Life in Long Creek moves with a deliberate, quiet gravity, far from the reach of the distant mountain ranges, anchored instead by the constant, encroaching presence of the tides and the patient growth of the forest floor.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Black River Floodplain Macrosite (Conservation Area) — 4.6 mi, 252° W
- Cape Fear River Wetlands Game Land (State Conservation Area) — 4.7 mi, 128° SE
- Black River Preserve (Conservation Area) — 5.0 mi, 264° W
- UNC Wilmington Research-Teaching Reserve (Recreation Easement) — 5.1 mi, 163° S
- Slocumb Monument (Attraction) — 5.5 mi, 287° W
- Moore Monument (Attraction) — 5.6 mi, 287° W
- Loyalist Monument (Attraction) — 5.6 mi, 287° W
- Stage Road Monument (Attraction) — 5.7 mi, 288° W
- New Hanover County Park (Local Park) — 7.9 mi, 122° SE
- Sutton Lake Game Land (State Conservation Area) — 8.1 mi, 172° S
- Our Heroes (Monument) — 9.6 mi, 033° NE
- Live Oak Bank Pavilion (Theatre) — 13.3 mi, 164° S
- Wilma W. Daniels Gallery (Gallery) — 13.8 mi, 163° S
- Cape Fear Viewpoint (Viewpoint) — 14.2 mi, 165° S
- Bellamy Mansion Museum of History & Design Arts (Museum) — 14.3 mi, 163° S
- Monument to Cornelius Harnett (Monument) — 14.3 mi, 163° S
- Kenan Memorial Fountain (Monument) — 14.3 mi, 163° S
- Hannah Block Historic USO Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 14.4 mi, 164° S
- Cape Fear Serpentarium (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 14.4 mi, 164° S
- Latimer House Museum (Museum) — 14.5 mi, 164° S
- Mayfaire 16 Cinema (Cinema) — 16.9 mi, 141° SE
- Bottle Chapel (Public Artwork) — 18.6 mi, 145° SE
- Wrightsville Beach Museum of History (Museum) — 19.4 mi, 141° SE
- Masonboro Island Estuarine Reserve Dedicated Nature Preserve (Marine Protected Area) — 19.4 mi, 144° SE
- Amphitheater (Theatre) — 19.5 mi, 141° SE
- North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 20.1 mi, 147° SE
- Sandy Run Savannas State Natural Area (State Park) — 23.1 mi, 056° NE
- Lake Waccamaw State Park (State Park) — 27.5 mi, 248° W
- Croatan National Forest (National Forest) — 53.4 mi, 061° NE · 162k acres
- Catfish Lake South Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 57.2 mi, 056° NE · 8,490 acres
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About This Long Creek Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Long Creek, North Carolina. Coordinates: 34.433991, -78.017234. 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 Long Creek includes the ZIP code (28457), telephone area code (910), county seat of Pender County (Burgaw), and school district assignment (Pender 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. |
