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Tyro North Carolina Map

Explore Tyro, 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 Tyro, North Carolina

How to Use This Tyro, North Carolina Map

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

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

Latitude	35.799712
Longitude	-80.376446
Population	3,753
Density	112.8 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	27295, 27299
Area Code	336
County Seat	Lexington
School District	Davidson County Schools

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About Tyro, North Carolina

Tyro is a locality in Davidson County, North Carolina, United States. It has a population of approximately 3,753. The population density is 112.8 people per km². Tyro is located at 35.7997°N, 80.3764°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 27295, 27299.

Tyro unfolds across a quiet stretch of the North Carolina piedmont, where the land settles into a series of modest, cultivated slopes that catch the long, golden light of the late afternoon. It lies 6.8 miles west of Lexington, NC (from Lexington, NC: bearing 261°T), and is situated 9.2 miles southwest of Welcome. North Potts Creek carves a deliberate path through the earth here, its water moving with a steady, hushed urgency that defines the local topography. Only two miles distant, the still surface of Lingle Lake offers a quiet mirror to the sky, reflecting the changing colors of the canopy that shifts from deep, muted greens to the burnt rusts of autumn. Far to the west, the Appalachian Mountains remain a jagged, blue-gray suggestion on the horizon, too distant to dominate the immediate, grounded reality of the soil. The air carries a weight of damp earth and pine, holding a stillness that seems to slow the very pulse of the day as shadows lengthen across the open fields.

Tyro carries the quiet endurance of a settlement built on the labor of the soil and the steady output of its regional mills. The economy remains tethered to the land, finding its rhythm in the seasonal cycles of agriculture and the maintenance of the surrounding woodlands, which are punctuated by the quiet conservation efforts of the Grubb Real Estate Preservation Foundation Preserve. Life here is measured in the small, recurring gestures of a rural existence, where the legacy of textile work and the traditions of the Southern interior remain etched in the local disposition. People move with a deliberate, unhurried composure, their lives shaped by the proximity of the creek and the vast, quiet tracts of land that have resisted the frantic pace of larger hubs. Even as the modern world encroaches, Tyro retains a stubborn, distinct character, defined by the people who still find value in the quiet persistence of the work they do and the land they cultivate.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Grubb Real Estate Preservation Foundation Preserve (Conservation Area) — 2.9 mi, 225° SW
Perkins Game Land (State Conservation Area) — 4.4 mi, 311° NW
Davidson County - Boones Cave Park (Local Recreation) — 4.8 mi, 270° W
Trading Ford (Monument) — 4.8 mi, 183° S
Davidson County Open Space (Local Park) — 4.8 mi, 135° SE
Three Rivers Land Trust Preserve - Bittinger Farm (Conservation Area) — 4.8 mi, 242° SW
Alcoa Game Land (State Conservation Area) — 4.8 mi, 190° S
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 6.6 mi, 077° E
Puzzle Piece (Public Artwork) — 7.0 mi, 077° E
Carolina Theatre (Theatre) — 7.0 mi, 077° E
Davidson County Historical Museum (Museum) — 7.1 mi, 076° E
Lexington Cinema 8 (Cinema) — 7.6 mi, 080° E
City of Lexington - Finch Community Park (Local Recreation) — 7.9 mi, 086° E
Town of Spencer - Fred and Alice Stanback Educational Forest and Nature Preserve (Local Conservation Area) — 8.4 mi, 207° SW
Flag Poles (Monument) — 9.6 mi, 218° SW
Patriot’s Flag Concourse (Monument) — 9.7 mi, 210° SW
Textile Heritage Center (Museum) — 10.1 mi, 276° W
T.M Stanback Barnyard (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 11.4 mi, 172° S
Tanglewood Festival of Lights (Attraction) — 14.8 mi, 352° N
Millbridge Speedway (Stadium) — 16.5 mi, 232° SW
Creative Drama Children's Theater Performing Arts Studio & Playhouse (Theatre) — 16.5 mi, 358° N
Gravity Hill - Folklore Destination (Attraction) — 16.7 mi, 154° SE
Railcar (Attraction) — 17.4 mi, 071° E
The Big Chair (Attraction) — 17.5 mi, 071° E
Sound Money Museum (Museum) — 19.5 mi, 216° SW
Overlook E (Viewpoint) — 21.7 mi, 027° NE
A/perture Cinema (Cinema) — 21.9 mi, 019° N
Uwharrie National Forest (National Forest) — 22.9 mi, 150° SE · 52k acres
Birkhead Mountains Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 27.6 mi, 121° SE · 5,216 acres
Morrow Mountain State Park (State Park) — 30.2 mi, 149° SE

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