Explore Sandyfield, 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 Sandyfield, 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 Sandyfield.
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 | Sandyfield |
| State | North Carolina (NC) |
| County | Columbus County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 34.367566 |
| Longitude | -78.303792 |
| Population | 430 |
| Density | 53.9 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 28456 |
| Area Code | 910 |
| County Seat | Whiteville |
| School District | Columbus County Schools |
Sandyfield emerges from the flat, pine-shadowed horizon as a quiet gathering of earth and timber, defined by the persistent, dark ribbon of Turkeypen Branch that veins the landscape. It lies 16.6 miles west-northwest of Leland, NC (from Leland, NC: bearing 300°T), and is situated 8.7 miles southwest of Long View. The soil here holds a particular, fine-grained quality, pale and thirsty, drinking in the heat of long afternoons while the surrounding woods hold their breath in the stillness. A subtle shift in the light happens toward evening, turning the sky a muted, dusty violet that settles over the fields and softens the rigid lines of the treeline. Beyond the immediate reach of the brush, the terrain maintains a patient, level composure, interrupted only by the distant, hazy suggestion of Sand Ball Hill rising like a half-remembered thought against the western sky.
Town of Sandyfield - Sandyfield Town Park serves as the central anchor for the daily pulse of the locality, offering a patch of managed green that balances the untamed sprawl of the nearby woodlands. The rhythm of life in Sandyfield moves in accordance with the slow, deliberate pace of agricultural cycles and the quiet industry of those who have long worked this specific patch of soil. While Barbecue Bay remains a silent, low-lying basin seven miles away, the memory of water is kept alive by the proximity of Lake Waccamaw, which influences the humidity and the deep, rich green of the pine needles. Life here is measured not by the transit of outsiders, but by the steady, internal clock of a place that remains deeply attached to its own quiet corners and the persistent, unhurried flow of the branch.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Sandyfield, North Carolina. Coordinates: 34.367566, -78.303792. 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 Sandyfield 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. |