Explore Silver City, 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 Silver City, 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 Silver City.
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 | Silver City |
| State | North Carolina (NC) |
| County | Hoke County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 34.996 |
| Longitude | -79.226144 |
| Population | 643 |
| Density | 166.2 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 28376 |
| Area Code | 704, 980 |
| County Seat | Raeford |
| School District | Hoke County Schools |
Silver City emerges from the quiet intersection of red clay earth and the dense, verdant woodlands that define the inland Piedmont. It lies 15.5 miles southeast of Southern Pines, NC (from Southern Pines, NC: bearing 143°T), and is situated 1.0 miles north of Raeford. The landscape here is defined by a slow, rhythmic inclination toward the horizon, where the distant silhouettes of Railroad Ridge suggest a rugged boundary far beyond the local fields. Just a mile away, the dark, tannin-stained waters of Rockfish Creek cut through the soil, carving a path through the undergrowth that remains cool even in the heat of a North Carolina afternoon. A short distance further, the quiet expanse of Williamson Pond reflects the changing sky, its surface often undisturbed save for the subtle movement of dragonflies or the occasional ripple from a submerged limb. Nearby, the Hoke County Community Forest offers a dense canopy where the light filters down in thin, dusty shafts, illuminating the floor in a muted, earthy palette of brown and deep green.
Silver City maintains a character forged by the steady persistence of regional industry and the slow turnover of the seasons. The economy here has long been tethered to the land and the modest mills that once powered the local commerce, leaving behind a legacy of brick structures that now hold the quiet echoes of a different pace of life. Residents move through their days with a deliberate, unassuming grace, maintaining a culture that values hospitality and the steady maintenance of long-standing family plots. While the town remains distinct from the more frantic centers of commerce, it retains a vitality found in the small, everyday rituals of the market and the shared labor of the community. In the quiet hours of dusk, as the air settles and the shadows lengthen across the open fields, Silver City feels anchored in its own history, a place where the connection between the people and the persistent, unhurried growth of the surrounding landscape remains absolute.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Silver City, North Carolina. Coordinates: 34.996, -79.226144. 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 Silver City includes the ZIP code (28376), telephone area code (704, 980), county seat of Hoke County (Raeford), and school district assignment (Hoke 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. |