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Whitakers North Carolina Map

Explore Whitakers, 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 Whitakers, North Carolina

How to Use This Whitakers, North Carolina Map

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

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

Latitude	36.105431
Longitude	-77.712754
Population	627
Density	294.9 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	27891
Area Code	919, 984
County Seat	Tarboro
School District	Nash-Rocky Mount Schools

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About Whitakers, North Carolina

Whitakers is a locality in Edgecombe County, North Carolina, United States. It is a small community with a population of 627. The population density is 294.9 people per km². Whitakers is located at 36.1054°N, 77.7128°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Whitakers is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 27891.

Whitakers exists as a quiet intersection of flat, fertile earth where the horizon stretches wide under a sky that seems to hold the heat of the afternoon long after the sun begins its descent. It lies 12.3 miles north-northeast of Rocky Mount, NC (from Rocky Mount, NC: bearing 21°T), and is situated 5.8 miles south-southwest of Enfield. The landscape here is defined by low-lying fields and dense woodland, marked by the slow, deliberate pulse of White Oak Swamp just a mile away, which draws the moisture from the soil and keeps the air thick with the scent of damp pine and rich loam. In the distance, the silhouette of Medoc Mountain rises as a faint, irregular ripple against the western sky, a reminder of the rising terrain that lies far beyond these plains. The light at dusk here possesses a particular quality, turning the dusty roads a deep, bruised violet as the shadows of the oaks lengthen across the fallow ground.

Whitakers carries the weight of a long agrarian tradition, its rhythm once dictated by the labor of the tobacco harvest and the shifting fortunes of the textile mills that anchored the local economy. Though the pace of industry has changed, the legacy of that era remains in the sturdy, weathered architecture of the older buildings that line the center, where the memory of past commerce still lingers in the brickwork. Residents find space for recreation at Tennis Court Park, a modest stretch of green that serves as a communal anchor, while the broader, more expansive waters of the Tar River Reservoir remain a distant, quiet presence seventeen miles to the south. Life in Whitakers moves with a steady, unadorned persistence, reflecting a culture that values the slow turning of the seasons and the quiet dignity of a day’s work completed.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Three Sisters Park (Local Park) — 4.4 mi, 197° S
Town of Enfield - Enfield Parks and Recreation (Local Recreation) — 5.2 mi, 026° NE
Tar River Land Conservancy Preserve (Conservation Area) — 8.9 mi, 283° W
Lower Fishing Creek Game Land (State Conservation Area) — 9.0 mi, 093° E
Sports Complex (Local Recreation) — 10.0 mi, 204° SW
Martin Luther King Jr. (Monument) — 11.4 mi, 200° S
Wildwood Park (Local Park) — 12.6 mi, 209° SW
Tillery Game Land (State Conservation Area) — 12.8 mi, 036° NE
Medoc Mountain State Park (State Park) — 13.3 mi, 322° NW
Roanoke River Bottomlands Megasite (Conservation Area) — 13.4 mi, 051° NE
Medoc Mountain Canoe & Kayak access (Attraction) — 14.3 mi, 317° NW
Rock Museum (Museum) — 16.1 mi, 086° E
Parkhill Cinema 3 (Cinema) — 16.4 mi, 149° SE
Joseph Montfort Burial Site (Monument) — 17.0 mi, 024° NE
Blount-Bridgers House (Gallery) — 17.1 mi, 145° SE
Royal Palace Theatre (Cinema) — 21.1 mi, 011° N
Pinetops War Memorial (Monument) — 22.0 mi, 170° S
It's A Zoo Life (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 22.1 mi, 174° S
Wilson Theatre (Theatre) — 28.4 mi, 203° SW
Barnes Corner Gallery (Gallery) — 28.6 mi, 203° SW
Roanoke River National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 30.1 mi, 106° E · 43k acres
Vollmer Farms (Attraction) — 30.6 mi, 249° W
The Country Doctor Museum (Museum) — 32.1 mi, 226° SW
Country Doctor Museum (Museum) — 32.2 mi, 226° SW
Jones Performing Arts Center, Louisburg College Auditorium (Theatre) — 32.6 mi, 270° W
Whirligig (Attraction) — 36.3 mi, 212° SW
NC Museum of Natural Sciences at Greenville (Museum) — 39.2 mi, 151° SE
Southern National Motorsport Park (Stadium) — 39.3 mi, 210° SW
Chowan Swamp State Natural Area (State Park) — 50.1 mi, 067° NE
Pocosin Lakes National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 66.2 mi, 111° E · 230k acres

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