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Penrose North Carolina Map

Explore Penrose, 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 Penrose, North Carolina

How to Use This Penrose, North Carolina Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Penrose, 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 Penrose.

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	Penrose
State	North Carolina (NC)
County	Transylvania County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	35.272337
Longitude	-82.639012
Population	1,200
Density	35.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	28768, 28766
Area Code	828
County Seat	Brevard

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About Penrose, North Carolina

Penrose is a locality in Transylvania County, North Carolina, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,200. The population density is 35.0 people per km². Penrose is located at 35.2723°N, 82.6390°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 28768, 28766.

Penrose holds a quiet gravity in the low-slung corridor where the French Broad River carves a slow, deliberate path through the earth. It lies 10.5 miles west-southwest of Hendersonville, NC (from Hendersonville, NC: bearing 252°T), and is situated 4.0 miles southwest of Etowah. The land here does not rush, instead favoring the steady, muddy patience of the riverbanks and the thick, verdant growth of the nearby Buck Forest. In the humid afternoons, the light thickens and turns a bruised gold, catching the edges of the distant Blue Ridge Mountains that loom like a long, indigo shadow on the horizon. Beyond the river, the terrain rises into the quiet hollows of Thrift Cove, where the air feels trapped and cool, smelling of damp loam and the persistent, heavy respiration of the woods.

Penrose retains a sturdy, pragmatic character shaped by the rhythms of the land and the labor of those who have long worked the soil and the timber. While the echoes of older agricultural cycles remain, the modern pace is measured by the steady transit of freight and the quiet maintenance of local homesteads, punctuated by the occasional visit to the nearby trails of the Mullinax Trail or the open grounds of Blantyre Park. Life here avoids the frantic pulse of the urban centers, preferring the solitude of a quiet porch and the memory of the deep, inland woods that stretch toward the cooler elevations. It is a place where the history is not in books but in the way the water moves past the banks, indifferent to the shifting economies, and in the way the local residents recognize the specific, quiet weight of a season turning toward winter.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Blantyre Park (Local Park) — 2.1 mi, 025° NE
Conserving Carolina - Pleasant Grove (Conservation Area) — 3.2 mi, 053° NE
Abbey's Overlook (Viewpoint) — 3.7 mi, 308° NW
Pisgah National Forest (National Forest) — 3.7 mi, 334° NW · 511k acres
Pisgah National Game Refuge (National Conservation Area) — 3.7 mi, 334° NW · 72k acres
Transylvani Activity Center (Local Recreation) — 3.8 mi, 252° W
Holmes State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 3.9 mi, 122° SE
Dupont State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 4.0 mi, 191° S
Hooker Falls (Attraction) — 5.0 mi, 170° S
Triple Falls (Attraction) — 5.3 mi, 166° S
Grassy Creek Falls (Attraction) — 5.6 mi, 162° S
High Falls (Attraction) — 5.7 mi, 165° S
Blue Moon Gallery & Frame (Gallery) — 6.0 mi, 243° SW
Camp John Rock (Monument) — 8.7 mi, 276° W
Jones Gap State Park (State Park) — 9.1 mi, 148° SE
Caesars Head State Park (State Park) — 10.1 mi, 177° S
Dixie Highway Monument (Monument) — 10.5 mi, 074° E
Mineral & Lapidary Museum (Museum) — 10.6 mi, 073° E
Shining Rock Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 10.7 mi, 304° NW · 18k acres
Caesars Head Hotel (Historic Ruins) — 11.5 mi, 176° S
Buck Springs Lodge foundation (Historic Ruins) — 11.6 mi, 328° NW
Western North Carolina Air Museum (Museum) — 11.8 mi, 079° E
Lake Wattacoo (Monument) — 13.2 mi, 165° S
Operations Center @ PARI (Museum) — 14.1 mi, 249° W
NASA Gallery @ PARI (Museum) — 14.1 mi, 249° W
Mineral Gallery @ PARI (Museum) — 14.1 mi, 249° W
Middle Prong Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 15.5 mi, 287° W · 7,482 acres
Nantahala National Forest (National Forest) — 15.9 mi, 269° W · 533k acres
Heartwood Gallery (Gallery) — 16.6 mi, 099° E
Wood Berry Gallery (Gallery) — 16.6 mi, 099° E

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