Rose Hill North Carolina Map
Explore Rose Hill, 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 Rose Hill, North Carolina
How to Use This Rose Hill, North Carolina Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Rose Hill, 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 Rose Hill.
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 | Rose Hill |
| State | North Carolina (NC) |
| County | Duplin County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 34.826037 |
| Longitude | -78.025943 |
| Population | 1,371 |
| Density | 366.8 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Codes | 27553, 28458 |
| Area Code | 919, 984, 910 |
| County Seat | Kenansville |
| School District | Duplin County Schools |
About Rose Hill, North Carolina
Rose Hill is a locality in Duplin County, North Carolina, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,371. The population density is 366.8 people per km². Rose Hill is located at 34.8260°N, 78.0259°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Rose Hill is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 27553, 28458.Rose Hill emerges from the flat, industrious plains of North Carolina, where the horizon stretches wide and the light at dusk settles in thick, amber layers over the fields. It lies 34.0 miles west of Jacksonville, NC (from Jacksonville, NC: bearing 279°T), and is situated 6.6 miles north-northwest of Wallace. The air here holds the steady, heavy warmth of the interior, untouched by any maritime influence, and feels instead like the breath of the deep woodland that once claimed this territory. To the west, the distant, hazy silhouette of the Blue Ridge provides a faint, jagged anchor to the sky, while the local terrain remains defined by the slow, deliberate movement of Island Creek nearby. The landscape surrounding Rose Hill is marked by the quiet, functional beauty of productive acreage and the low-lying basin of Bear Ford, where the earth seems to hold the moisture of the seasons long after the clouds have drifted away.
Town of Rose Hill - Jerome Park serves as a quiet center for the people who live here, offering a modest space where the rhythms of daily labor and seasonal harvest are respected. The economy of Rose Hill remains tethered to the vitality of the soil and the legacy of agricultural industry, which has shaped the character of the residents into a steady, industrious resolve. Not far from the stillness of Lake Tut, the community maintains a pace that favors persistence over haste, reflecting a history built on hard work and the long, sun-drenched cycles of the regional crop. Even as the modern world shifts, the people of Rose Hill move with a certain grounded grace, finding continuity in the familiar patterns of the land and the quiet, recurring promise of the next planting.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Town of Rose Hill - Jerome Park (Local Recreation) — 0.4 mi, 198° S
- Town of Teachey - Teachey Town Park (Local Recreation) — 3.7 mi, 168° S
- Cape Fear Wetlands Game Land (State Conservation Area) — 8.1 mi, 127° SE
- Angola Bay Game Land (State Conservation Area) — 8.7 mi, 128° SE
- North Carolina Coastal Land Trust - Northeast Cape Fear River Murray Preserve (Conservation Area) — 9.5 mi, 146° SE
- Cowan Museum of History and Science (Museum) — 9.9 mi, 020° N
- Liberty Hall (Museum) — 9.9 mi, 020° N
- Black River Preserve (Conservation Area) — 15.3 mi, 232° SW
- North Carolina Marble Co (Monument) — 18.9 mi, 304° NW
- Our Heroes (Monument) — 19.9 mi, 163° S
- Arts Co of Faison (Arts Centre) — 21.0 mi, 343° N
- Sandy Run Savannas State Natural Area (State Park) — 23.3 mi, 121° SE
- Bay Tree Lake State Natural Area (State Park) — 23.4 mi, 242° SW
- Stage Road Monument (Attraction) — 25.8 mi, 191° S
- Loyalist Monument (Attraction) — 25.9 mi, 191° S
- Patriot (Grady) Monument (Attraction) — 25.9 mi, 191° S
- Moore Monument (Attraction) — 25.9 mi, 191° S
- Onslow County Museum (Museum) — 27.5 mi, 079° E
- Cliffs of the Neuss l (Viewpoint) — 29.7 mi, 016° N
- The Big Barn Theater (Theatre) — 32.6 mi, 351° N
- Topsail Shoe Tree (Monument) — 33.5 mi, 154° SE
- MCAS New River Theater (Theatre) — 33.7 mi, 102° E
- Zing Zumm (Museum) — 34.6 mi, 099° E
- La Grange Arts Center (Museum) — 35.9 mi, 022° N
- Bentonville Civil War Trenches (Registered Battlefield) — 37.0 mi, 333° NW
- Confederate Assault/Morris Farm (Registered Battlefield) — 37.0 mi, 334° NW
- Croatan National Forest (National Forest) — 45.2 mi, 079° E · 162k acres
- Catfish Lake South Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 48.3 mi, 084° E · 8,490 acres
- Pocosin Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 53.9 mi, 092° E · 12k acres
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About This Rose Hill Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Rose Hill, North Carolina. Coordinates: 34.826037, -78.025943. 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 Rose Hill includes the ZIP code (27553, 28458), telephone area code (919, 984, 910), county seat of Duplin County (Kenansville), and school district assignment (Duplin 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. |
