Explore Marshville, 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 Marshville, 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 Marshville.
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 | Marshville |
| State | North Carolina (NC) |
| County | Union County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 34.988486 |
| Longitude | -80.367008 |
| Population | 2,522 |
| Density | 458.9 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 28103 |
| Area Code | 704, 980 |
| County Seat | Monroe |
| School District | Union County Public Schools |
Marshville occupies a quiet stretch of the North Carolina piedmont, where the land settles into broad, clay-rich fields and dense patches of loblolly pine. It lies 10.3 miles east of Monroe, NC (from Monroe, NC: bearing 89°T), and is situated 4.7 miles east of Wingate. Buck Branch carves a modest, meandering path through the earth nearby, feeding the damp, shaded lowlands where the soil stays dark and cool long after the morning sun has climbed high. To the far west, the distant, hazy silhouette of the Appalachian Mountains occasionally haunts the horizon, though here the terrain favors a steady, level expanse rather than dramatic peaks. The air carries a heavy, sweet scent of pine needles and turned dirt, especially when the humidity gathers before a late-afternoon storm, blurring the edges of the horizon into a soft, bruised violet. Nearby, the quiet surface of Stegall Lake acts as a mirror for the shifting clouds, providing a still, reflective reprieve from the heat that radiates off the asphalt and brick.
Marshville carries a history rooted in the iron rails that once dictated the movement of goods and people across this inland expanse, shaping a local economy that long leaned on the labor of the harvest and the output of small-scale industry. The rhythm of daily life here remains tethered to the steady work of the land and the modest commerce that lines the main thoroughfares, where the pace is measured not by the clock but by the seasonal requirements of the fields. Families often gather at Town of Marshville - Marshville Park, a space that offers a brief, green exhale for a community that values the predictable comfort of neighbors and the familiar routines of the workweek. While the larger world continues its hurried pace, Marshville holds fast to a deliberate, grounded way of existing, defined by the persistence of its people and the quiet endurance of the red clay beneath their feet.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Marshville, North Carolina. Coordinates: 34.988486, -80.367008. 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 Marshville includes the ZIP code (28103), telephone area code (704, 980), county seat of Union County (Monroe), and school district assignment (Union County Public 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. |