Explore Newton Grove, 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 Newton Grove, 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 Newton Grove.
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 | Newton Grove |
| State | North Carolina (NC) |
| County | Sampson County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 35.245165 |
| Longitude | -78.354168 |
| Population | 585 |
| Density | 73.3 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 28366 |
| Area Code | 704, 980 |
| County Seat | Clinton |
| School District | Sampson County Schools |
Newton Grove exists as a quiet confluence of flat, fertile earth where the dark, humid breath of Beaverdam Swamp defines the edges of the local landscape. It lies 18.2 miles south of Smithfield, NC (from Smithfield, NC: bearing 183°T), and is situated 15.0 miles east-southeast of Dunn. The horizon remains stubbornly level, a vast expanse of agricultural soil that stretches toward the distant, hazy suggestion of Big Ridge, which sits thirty-five miles away like a forgotten memory of elevation. Sunlight here possesses a heavy, amber quality, lingering long over the fields in the late afternoon and turning the stagnant waters of Warrens Pond into polished sheets of dark copper. Deep within the low-lying terrain four miles distant, the basin of Bull Pocosin acts as a natural catchment for the seasonal rains, keeping the surrounding woods dense and shadowed.
Newton Grove sustains itself through the slow, cyclical patience of farming, a tradition of tilled rows and seasonal yields that anchors the local economy to the soil. Long before modern conveniences arrived, the people here cultivated a life dictated by the requirements of the crop and the unpredictable temperament of the weather. While the Conservation Trust for North Carolina Preserve remains thirteen miles away, the preservation of the land’s original character is felt in the thickets and the quiet, unpaved lanes that cut through the countryside. The pace of daily life is measured not by the clock, but by the gradual transition from the planting of seeds to the harvest, maintaining a continuity that has persisted across generations.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Newton Grove, North Carolina. Coordinates: 35.245165, -78.354168. 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 Newton Grove includes the ZIP code (28366), telephone area code (704, 980), county seat of Sampson County (Clinton), and school district assignment (Sampson 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. |