Explore Valley Hill, 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 Valley Hill, 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 Valley Hill.
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 | Valley Hill |
| State | North Carolina (NC) |
| County | Henderson County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 35.29845 |
| Longitude | -82.483176 |
| Population | 2,207 |
| Density | 367.5 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 28739 |
| Area Code | 828 |
| County Seat | Hendersonville |
| School District | Henderson County Schools |
Valley Hill emerges from the red-clay earth as a quiet gathering of slopes and hollows, defined primarily by the persistent, winding movement of Finley Creek. It lies 1.9 miles southwest of Hendersonville, NC (from Hendersonville, NC: bearing 222°T), and is situated 9.2 miles south of Fletcher. The landscape here is characterized by the modest elevation of the Piedmont, where the distant, hazy silhouette of the Blue Ridge Mountains marks the western horizon, serving as a constant, looming sentinel over the local terrain. Osceola Lake sits as a mirror to the sky, its surface often undisturbed, while the nearby Town of Laurel Park - Rhododendron Lake Nature Park provides a sanctuary of wild growth that contrasts with the domestic order of the surrounding fields. The air in Valley Hill carries the faint, damp scent of deep soil and shadowed hollows, feeling heaviest when the mist rolls in from the darker reaches of Dark Cove to settle against the timber.
Historical industry in Valley Hill relied upon the steady current of Finley Creek to power early mills, establishing a rhythm of labor that persists in the quiet, methodical pace of the current agricultural and local trade economy. While the grander narratives of the region often turn toward the textile mills or the tobacco fields that once defined the state’s prosperity, Valley Hill remains defined by its own smaller, steady cycles of production and the seasonal transformation of the woods. The proximity of Turley Falls, cascading through the mossy stones just a few miles away, offers a persistent, low-frequency hum that seems to underscore the daily routines of those who live here. Residents often venture toward the edges of Buck Forest to gather or traverse the trails, maintaining a connection to the land that feels both earned and inevitable. The character of Valley Hill is found in these unadorned details: the way the light catches the silt in the creek bed at midday, or the collective pause taken when the seasons shift the colors of the canopy from vibrant green to a brittle, muted bronze.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Valley Hill, North Carolina. Coordinates: 35.29845, -82.483176. 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 Valley Hill includes the ZIP code (28739), telephone area code (828), county seat of Henderson County (Hendersonville), and school district assignment (Henderson 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. |