Roxboro North Carolina Map

About Roxboro, North Carolina

Roxboro is a locality in Person County, North Carolina, United States. It has a population of approximately 8,182. The population density is 424.3 people per km². Roxboro is located at 36.3938°N, 78.9828°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 27573.

Roxboro rests in a landscape of rolling Piedmont hills, where the land slopes gently towards the Eno River. It lies 26.5 miles east-south-east of Danville, VA (from Danville, VA: bearing 120°T), and is situated 7.6 miles north-north-west of Timberlake. The air here, especially in the late afternoon, carries a sweet, damp scent of pine and rich soil, a testament to the surrounding farms. Oak and hickory trees, their branches reaching wide, punctuate the fields, and in autumn, they blaze with a fierce, temporary glory of ochre and crimson before surrendering to winter. The sky above Roxboro often stretches vast and pale blue, a wide canvas for slow-moving clouds that cast fleeting shadows across the cultivated fields and the scattered clusters of homes. The economic pulse of Roxboro has long been tied to the land, with tobacco once reigning supreme, its curing barns dotting the horizon like weathered sentinels. Though the agricultural landscape has shifted, the legacy of those fields and the hard work they demanded remains. Today, a more diversified economy thrives, with manufacturing and service industries contributing to the town's vitality, a quiet hum beneath the surface of its unhurried days. The historic courthouse stands as a focal point, a solid, brick anchor in the downtown square where local life unfolds at its own steady pace. Residents speak with a soft, Southern cadence, a gentle echo of the generations who have called this corner of North Carolina home.

About This Roxboro Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Roxboro, North Carolina — switch between views using the small square in the bottom left-hand corner of the map. Coordinates: 36.393752, -78.982788. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service, with current observations and a 7-day forecast also powered by Open-Meteo. Real-time local news and world news feeds keep the page current, while a Wikipedia summary or an editorially written description provides background on Roxboro and Person County.

Detailed location data for Roxboro includes the ZIP code (27573), telephone area code (919, 984), county seat of Person County (Roxboro), and school district assignment (Person County Schools). These are among the most commonly searched location details for any US city or town.

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity — ensuring the correct Roxboro is identified even where the name is shared across multiple counties or states. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.