Explore Yanceyville, 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 Yanceyville, 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 Yanceyville.
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 | Yanceyville |
| State | North Carolina (NC) |
| County | Caswell County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 36.404027 |
| Longitude | -79.336131 |
| Population | 1,937 |
| Density | 108.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 27379 |
| Area Code | 336 |
| County Seat | Yanceyville |
| School District | Caswell County Schools |
Yanceyville occupies a quiet expanse of the North Carolina piedmont, where the land stretches out in gentle, timbered swells of clay and loam. It lies 18.6 miles east of Reidsville, NC (from Reidsville, NC: bearing 79°T), and is situated 13.0 miles south-southeast of Danville. The air here holds a heavy, settled stillness, especially as the late afternoon light deepens the rust-colored soil and casts long shadows across the fields. Only a mile away, the South Fork Rattlesnake Creek carves a narrow, winding path through the undergrowth, its movement barely audible against the backdrop of the surrounding hardwoods. While Corbett Ridge remains a distant, hazy silhouette against the western horizon, the immediate terrain stays grounded in the modest, rhythmic rise and fall of the local topography. At Caswell County - Caswell County Park, the earth feels particularly ancient, a place where the cooling ground at dusk releases the warmth it gathered throughout the day.
Yanceyville retains the character of an inland crossroads, shaped by a long reliance on the soil and the quiet endurance of its people. The local economy, once dictated by the cycles of tobacco cultivation, now finds a slower pace in the maintenance of these wide, open spaces and the preservation of historic architecture that marks the center of the village. Memories of the past linger in the brickwork of older buildings, standing as silent witnesses to generations who labored in the fields or traded goods near the quiet waters of Caswell Wildlife Mgmt Area Pond O. Life in Yanceyville moves with a deliberate, unadorned precision, favoring the steady hand of the craftsman and the patience of those who watch the seasons turn. There is a profound honesty in the way the local life adheres to the land, reflecting a culture that values the weight of history as much as the promise of the coming harvest.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Yanceyville, North Carolina. Coordinates: 36.404027, -79.336131. 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 Yanceyville includes the ZIP code (27379), telephone area code (336), county seat of Caswell County (Yanceyville), and school district assignment (Caswell 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. |