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Swepsonville North Carolina Map

Explore Swepsonville, 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.

Interactive Map of Swepsonville, North Carolina

How to Use This Swepsonville, North Carolina Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Swepsonville, 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 Swepsonville.

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	Swepsonville
State	North Carolina (NC)
County	Alamance County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	36.021249
Longitude	-79.361408
Population	2,445
Density	661.5 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Codes	27253, 27359
Area Code	336
County Seat	Graham
School District	Alamance-Burlington Schools

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About Swepsonville, North Carolina

Swepsonville is a locality in Alamance County, North Carolina, United States. It has a population of approximately 2,445. The population density is 661.5 people per km². Swepsonville is located at 36.0212°N, 79.3614°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Swepsonville is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 27253, 27359.

Swepsonville occupies a low-slung bend of the landscape where the Haw River carves a persistent, dark-water path through the red clay of the North Carolina piedmont. It lies 4.0 miles south-southeast of Graham, NC (from Graham, NC: bearing 146°T), and is situated 6.7 miles southeast of Burlington. Sunlight here possesses a heavy, amber quality in the late afternoon, catching the silt of the riverbank and illuminating the dense, encroaching woodland that separates the houses from the open fields. Beyond the immediate canopy of oaks and pines, the distant outline of Poplar Ridge sits as a faint, jagged scratch against the western sky, serving as a silent boundary to the horizon. A mile away, the surface of Piedmont Crescent Golf Course Lak holds the reflection of passing clouds, remaining a quiet contrast to the constant, rhythmic motion of the nearby riverbed.

Swepsonville carries the quiet weight of a place defined by the long-vanished hum of textile looms, which once anchored the local economy and dictated the daily schedules of its inhabitants. While the industrial roar has faded into a memory of brick chimneys and floorboards polished by decades of work, the legacy of that era remains in the sturdy, unadorned architecture that lines the streets. Residents often look toward the Alamance County - Great Alamance Creek Paddle Access when they seek the water, maintaining a connection to the natural geography that predates the mills. Life here moves with a deliberate, tempered pace, favoring the shade of a front porch and the steady, neighborly acknowledgment of those passing by, as the community balances its industrial heritage with the slow, persistent reclamation of the land by the surrounding woods.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Alamance County - Great Alamance Creek Paddle Access (Local Recreation) — 1.9 mi, 279° W
City of Graham - South Graham Municipal Park (Local Recreation) — 2.7 mi, 293° NW
Love Graham (Public Artwork) — 3.9 mi, 327° NW
Alamance County - Cedarock Park (Local Conservation Area) — 4.5 mi, 247° SW
Fairchild Park (Local Park) — 5.1 mi, 330° NW
Alamance County - Cane Creek Mountains Natural Area (Local Conservation Area) — 5.2 mi, 216° SW
Haw River Ballroom (Theatre) — 5.7 mi, 155° SE
Three College Observatory (Museum) — 5.9 mi, 206° SW
Former Pioneer Camp Meeting/Dining Hall Chimney (Historic Ruins) — 6.4 mi, 212° SW
Buffaloe Lanes Mebane (Attraction) — 7.4 mi, 047° NE
Fireside Farm & Sawmill (Attraction) — 8.7 mi, 115° SE
Amphitheater (Theatre) — 9.6 mi, 305° NW
Guilford County Park (Local Park) — 10.8 mi, 287° W
Mountains-to-Sea Trail (State Park) — 11.5 mi, 322° NW
Panther Branch Natural Area (Nature Reserve) — 13.1 mi, 065° NE
Thomas Lloyd Marker (Monument) — 15.0 mi, 110° E
Billy Strayhorn (Monument) — 15.1 mi, 076° E
Edmund Fanning (Monument) — 15.1 mi, 076° E
Hillsborough Gallery of Arts (Gallery) — 15.1 mi, 075° E
Hillsborough Arts Council (Gallery) — 15.1 mi, 076° E
Orange County Historical Society (Museum) — 15.1 mi, 075° E
Trading Path View (Viewpoint) — 16.0 mi, 075° E
Eno River State Park (State Park) — 16.5 mi, 077° E
Silk Hope Ruritan Club (Museum) — 16.6 mi, 182° S
Old Powerline Mill (Historic Ruins) — 17.3 mi, 097° E
Mike Roig (Gallery) — 17.5 mi, 115° SE
R. Wayne Bailey - Caswell Game Land (State Conservation Area) — 20.5 mi, 010° N
Uwharrie National Forest (National Forest) — 36.6 mi, 215° SW · 52k acres
Birkhead Mountains Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 39.8 mi, 227° SW · 5,216 acres

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