Explore Roxobel, 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 Roxobel, 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 Roxobel.
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 | Roxobel |
| State | North Carolina (NC) |
| County | Bertie County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 36.202934 |
| Longitude | -77.245243 |
| Population | 187 |
| Density | 69.2 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 27872 |
| Area Code | 919, 984 |
| County Seat | Windsor |
| School District | Bertie County Schools |
Roxobel remains a quiet sentinel of the North Carolina interior, marked by a landscape of flat, fertile fields that stretch toward the horizon with a patient, earthen weight. It lies 26.7 miles northeast of Tarboro, NC (from Tarboro, NC: bearing 37°T), and is situated 15.6 miles west-southwest of Ahoskie. The air here holds the heavy, sweet scent of damp soil and ripening crops, particularly during the humid transition of a late summer dusk when the light turns a bruised, honeyed gold. Sandy Run threads its way through the nearby brush, a modest vein of water that carves a slow path through the low-lying terrain, while the silhouette of Fox Bark rises in the distance as a solitary, modest interruption to the otherwise level expanse. Beyond the cultivated rows, the Roanoke River Wetlands Game Land offers a sprawling, untamed refuge where the shadows grow long and deep under the canopy, providing a rhythmic stillness that defines the physical character of the land.
Roxobel persists as a place where the echoes of agricultural heritage dictate the quiet commerce of the day, reflecting a long-standing reliance on the productivity of the surrounding plains. The local economy stays tethered to the cycles of the harvest, a tradition that has shaped the lives of those who work the fields and manage the modest trade of the village. History in Roxobel feels less like a written record and more like a shared inheritance, visible in the weathered architecture and the deliberate, unforced pace of daily life that avoids the frantic pulse of larger hubs. Even as the modern world shifts, the locality maintains an identity rooted in the steady, agrarian rhythm of the seasons, where the most notable events are marked by the changing colors of the earth and the communal endurance of its people.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Roxobel, North Carolina. Coordinates: 36.202934, -77.245243. 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 Roxobel includes the ZIP code (27872), telephone area code (919, 984), county seat of Bertie County (Windsor), and school district assignment (Bertie 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. |