Explore Supply, 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 Supply, 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 Supply.
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 | Supply |
| State | North Carolina (NC) |
| County | Brunswick County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 34.017672 |
| Longitude | -78.267499 |
| Population | 1,800 |
| Density | 55.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 28462 |
| Area Code | 910 |
| County Seat | Bolivia |
Supply exists as a quiet nexus where the dark, tannin-stained waters of the Royal Oak Swamp carve a slow path through the low-lying coastal plain. It lies 20.8 miles southwest of Leland, NC (from Leland, NC: bearing 218°T), and is situated 9.3 miles northwest of Oak Island. The landscape here is defined by a dense, humid verdancy, where the scent of pine needles and damp earth hangs heavy in the air, particularly when the afternoon light turns a bruised, golden hue before dusk. Only seven miles of flat, pine-studded terrain separate Supply from the salt-spray influence of the Atlantic Ocean, leaving the atmosphere thick with the pervasive, briny weight of the tides. To the west, the sprawling, protected reaches of the Green Swamp Preserve offer a vast, tangled sanctuary, while the horizon remains unbroken, save for the distant, phantom suggestion of Sand Hill.
Supply maintains a pace dictated less by the clock and more by the seasonal ebb of the timber and agricultural cycles that have long anchored the local economy. History here is written in the subtle shifts of the soil and the legacy of families who have worked the land for generations, far from the frantic energy of larger industrial hubs. Life moves with a deliberate, courteous cadence, evident in the way neighbors acknowledge one another at the local crossroads or the quiet persistence of those tending to small-scale plots. Though the nearby presence of Little Island and the distant expanse of Ludlum Pasture hint at a broader, wilder geography, the character of Supply remains deeply grounded in its immediate, unassuming geography, where the occasional reflection of the sky in a quiet pool or the rustle of reeds in the swamp serves as the primary punctuation of the day.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Supply, North Carolina. Coordinates: 34.017672, -78.267499. 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 Supply includes the ZIP code (28462), telephone area code (910), county seat of Brunswick County (Bolivia), and school district assignment.
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. |