Explore Red Springs, 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 Red Springs, 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 Red Springs.
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 | Red Springs |
| State | North Carolina (NC) |
| County | Robeson County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 34.806148 |
| Longitude | -79.181112 |
| Population | 3,087 |
| Density | 340.5 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 28377 |
| Area Code | 704, 980 |
| County Seat | Lumberton |
| School District | Robeson County Schools |
Red Springs emerges from the flat, pine-dotted landscape of the coastal plain, where the soil holds the deep, iron-rich pigment that gives the locality its name. It lies 16.1 miles east of Laurinburg, NC (from Laurinburg, NC: bearing 80°T), and is situated 9.4 miles north of Pembroke. Panther Branch carves a narrow, winding path through the outskirts, its dark waters moving with a deliberate, quiet persistence toward the low-lying basins that define the regional drainage. Beyond the immediate canopy of longleaf pines, the horizon remains vast and unbroken, save for the faint, hazy suggestion of Mac Ridge rising twenty-two miles away in the distance. The air here carries a heavy, humid stillness at dusk, when the light turns a bruised gold and the shadows of the trees stretch across the fields of Unknown Park, which occupies the very ground upon which the settlement was established.
History in Red Springs is measured in the steady persistence of the agrarian cycle and the remnants of the textile industry that once hummed with mechanical intensity. Travelers passing through the center notice the architecture of a bygone era, where brick storefronts and quiet residential streets reflect a time when the railroad dictated the tempo of daily commerce. Only three miles away, the waters of Greenbrier Lake offer a placid contrast to the dusty, sun-baked roads that extend toward the Great Desert, a basin that serves as a reminder of the shifting, ancient topographies of this interior region. Life in Red Springs maintains a measured, courteous pace, rooted in the traditions of the land and the quiet resilience of those who have long called this particular stretch of the Piedmont transition home.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Red Springs, North Carolina. Coordinates: 34.806148, -79.181112. 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 Red Springs includes the ZIP code (28377), telephone area code (704, 980), county seat of Robeson County (Lumberton), and school district assignment (Robeson 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. |