Explore Marshall, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Marshall, 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 Marshall.
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 | Marshall |
| State | North Carolina (NC) |
| County | Madison County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 35.797328 |
| Longitude | -82.684025 |
| Population | 777 |
| Density | 75.3 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 28753 |
| Area Code | 828 |
| County Seat | Marshall |
| School District | Madison County Schools |
Marshall reveals itself as a vertical geography, where the French Broad River carves a deep, serpentine path through the narrow floor of the valley. It lies 15.4 miles north-northwest of Asheville, NC (from Asheville, NC: bearing 332°T), and is situated 9.8 miles northwest of Weaverville. Steep, uncompromising slopes rise sharply from the water’s edge, creating a landscape that feels compressed and intimate, as if the earth itself had been folded by some immense, prehistoric pressure. To the west, the Blue Ridge Mountains frame the horizon in a jagged, hazy indigo, while the air carries a persistent, cool dampness that rises from the riverbed to coat the stone facades of the main street at dusk. Only a few miles away, the quiet waters of McGee Dam offer a stillness that contrasts with the constant motion of the current, and the dense, shadowed canopy of Pisgah National Forest looms on the periphery, holding the rugged, wild character of the terrain in check.
Marshall maintains a character forged by the stubborn persistence of those who chose to build on such unforgiving ground, where the architecture of the downtown clings to the riverbank with a singular, gravity-defying focus. Historically, the economy relied on the rhythmic extraction of timber and the slow, deliberate work of agriculture, though today the town thrives on a quiet resurgence of craft and artistic industry that occupies the historic brick buildings along the water. Beyond the town limits, the landscape shifts toward the wilder reaches of Sandy Mush Game Land or the hidden, quiet recesses of Allman Hollow, where the influence of the Appalachian ballad tradition still lingers in the cadence of local speech. Life here moves with the deliberate pace of the French Broad River, a persistent flow that defines the boundaries of the day and reminds those who stay that the land, much like the water, dictates the terms of settlement.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Marshall, North Carolina. Coordinates: 35.797328, -82.684025. 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 Marshall includes the ZIP code (28753), telephone area code (828), county seat of Madison County (Marshall), and school district assignment (Madison 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. |