Riegelwood North Carolina Map
Explore Riegelwood, 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 Riegelwood, North Carolina
How to Use This Riegelwood, North Carolina Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Riegelwood, 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 Riegelwood.
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 | Riegelwood |
| State | North Carolina (NC) |
| County | Columbus County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 34.339891 |
| Longitude | -78.225277 |
| Population | 545 |
| Density | 68.2 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 28456 |
| Area Code | 910 |
| County Seat | Whiteville |
| School District | Columbus County Schools |
About Riegelwood, North Carolina
Riegelwood is a locality in Columbus County, North Carolina, United States. It is a small community with a population of 545. The population density is 68.2 people per km². Riegelwood is located at 34.3399°N, 78.2253°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 28456.Riegelwood emerges from the humid, low-lying coastal plain where the dark, tannin-stained waters of Pretty Creek slip silently through the dense undergrowth. It lies 11.8 miles west-northwest of Leland, NC (from Leland, NC: bearing 299°T), and is situated 9.4 miles south of Long View. The landscape here is defined by a heavy, verdant stillness, where the air clings to the skin with the weight of a damp wool blanket and the light at dusk turns the pine needles into needles of burnished copper. Beyond the immediate reach of the creek, the land stretches out in a flat, quiet expanse, occasionally broken by the distant, hazy rise of Sand Ball Hill or the subtle, marshy depressions of Flat Bay. Though the open sea remains miles away, the atmosphere carries a lingering, salt-tinged humidity, a reminder of the proximity to the shifting tides of Aldermans Cove.
Columbus County - Riegelwood Park serves as the central point of congregation, a green anchor for a place whose character has been shaped by the industry of the pulp and paper mills that once defined the regional economy. The rhythm of daily life in Riegelwood moves with a deliberate, unadorned pace, far removed from the clamor of the piedmont or the tourist-heavy coast. Residents carry the legacy of a working-class history, where the labor of the forest and the soil has long dictated the flow of commerce and the social order. Even as the modern world shifts, the presence of Lake Sutton remains a constant, providing a reflective, glassy expanse that mirrors the changing sky and offers a quiet solitude to those who walk its banks.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Columbus County - Riegelwood Park (Local Recreation) — 0.0 mi, 303° NW
- Town of Sandyfield - Sandyfield Town Park (Local Recreation) — 4.5 mi, 306° NW
- Cape Fear River Wetlands Game Land (State Conservation Area) — 6.4 mi, 074° E
- Black River Preserve (Conservation Area) — 7.4 mi, 039° NE
- Black River Floodplain Macrosite (Conservation Area) — 7.7 mi, 038° NE
- Whitehall Plantation Game Land (State Conservation Area) — 10.1 mi, 322° NW
- Patriot (Grady) Monument (Attraction) — 10.4 mi, 038° NE
- Loyalist Monument (Attraction) — 10.4 mi, 038° NE
- Moore Monument (Attraction) — 10.4 mi, 039° NE
- Slocumb Monument (Attraction) — 10.4 mi, 039° NE
- UNC Wilmington Research-Teaching Reserve (Recreation Easement) — 12.5 mi, 089° E
- Lake Waccamaw State Park (State Park) — 14.2 mi, 252° W
- Live Oak Bank Pavilion (Theatre) — 16.9 mi, 112° E
- Cape Fear Viewpoint (Viewpoint) — 17.2 mi, 115° SE
- Wilma W. Daniels Gallery (Gallery) — 17.2 mi, 113° SE
- Orange Street Landing (Monument) — 17.4 mi, 115° SE
- Cape Fear Serpentarium (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 17.4 mi, 115° SE
- Hannah Block Historic USO Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 17.5 mi, 115° SE
- To the Soldiers of the Confederacy (Monument) — 17.5 mi, 115° SE
- Latimer House Museum (Museum) — 17.6 mi, 115° SE
- Monument to Cornelius Harnett (Monument) — 17.6 mi, 114° SE
- Bellamy Mansion Museum of History & Design Arts (Museum) — 17.6 mi, 114° SE
- Singletary Lake State Park (State Park) — 20.8 mi, 323° NW
- Mayfaire 16 Cinema (Cinema) — 23.4 mi, 107° E
- Bottle Chapel (Public Artwork) — 24.3 mi, 111° E
- Minnie Evans Performing Arts Center (Theatre) — 24.4 mi, 133° SE
- North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 24.5 mi, 124° SE
- Masonboro Island Estuarine Reserve Dedicated Nature Preserve (Marine Protected Area) — 24.8 mi, 122° SE
- Wrightsville Beach Museum of History (Museum) — 25.6 mi, 109° E
- Waccamaw National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 58.2 mi, 233° SW · 35k acres
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About This Riegelwood Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Riegelwood, North Carolina. Coordinates: 34.339891, -78.225277. 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 Riegelwood includes the ZIP code (28456), telephone area code (910), county seat of Columbus County (Whiteville), and school district assignment (Columbus 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. |
