Long Creek North Carolina Map

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.

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).

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.