Yaupon Beach North Carolina Map
Explore Yaupon Beach, 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 Yaupon Beach, North Carolina
How to Use This Yaupon Beach, North Carolina Map
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Yaupon Beach, 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 Yaupon Beach.
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 | Yaupon Beach |
| State | North Carolina (NC) |
| County | Brunswick County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 33.904896 |
| Longitude | -78.078325 |
| Population | 680 |
| Density | 120.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 28465 |
| Area Code | 910 |
| County Seat | Bolivia |
About Yaupon Beach, North Carolina
Yaupon Beach is a locality in Brunswick County, North Carolina, United States. It is a small community with a population of 680. The population density is 120.0 people per km². Yaupon Beach is located at 33.9049°N, 78.0783°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 28465.Yaupon Beach stretches its low, sandy spine across the shifting dunes of Oak Island, where the salt-heavy air clings to the skin like a damp shroud. It lies 19.5 miles southwest of Myrtle Grove, NC (from Myrtle Grove, NC: bearing 215°T), and is situated 4.8 miles east of Oak Island. Here, the Atlantic Ocean dictates the pulse of the day, folding its white-crested waves against the shore with a persistence that erodes the memory of the land. To the north, the brackish waters of Piney Point Creek wind through tangled marsh grasses, offering a quiet sanctuary for the herons that stand motionless as statues in the gray light of dawn. The horizon remains flat and expansive, save for the distant, hazy suggestion of Prospect Ridge far to the west, a reminder of a higher, harder world that holds no sway over this porous, shifting coast.
Shipwreck Park serves as the silent witness to the maritime legacy that defines the character of Yaupon Beach, marking the transition between the untamed surf and the modest dwellings that define the local economy. Fishing and the seasonal rhythms of tourism form the bedrock of life here, moving in tandem with the tides rather than the clock. Beyond the immediate reach of the dunes, the landscape settles into a quiet stillness, punctuated seven miles away by the calm, freshwater reflection of White Spring Ponds. Life in Yaupon Beach persists in this narrow margin between the deep, restless blue of the sea and the solid, pine-shadowed earth, where the past is buried under layers of sand and the future is written in the salt-etched faces of those who call this thin strip of island home.
Nearby Outdoor Places
- Shipwreck Park (Local Park) — 0.4 mi, 317° NW
- North Carolina Coastal Land Trust - Oak Island Marshes Preserve (Conservation Area) — 0.6 mi, 029° NE
- Pescado De Amor (Gallery) — 1.5 mi, 290° W
- Dutchman Creek Park (Local Park) — 1.5 mi, 043° NE
- Indigo Plantation Marsh Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 2.6 mi, 070° E
- Buoy 1 (Monument) — 2.7 mi, 109° E
- Buoy 2 (Monument) — 2.7 mi, 109° E
- The Artisan's Gallery On Howe (Gallery) — 3.5 mi, 076° E
- Ricky Evans Gallery (Gallery) — 3.5 mi, 073° E
- Bald Head Island State Natural Area (State Park) — 3.6 mi, 087° E
- City of Southport - Lowe-White Memorial Park (Local Recreation) — 3.6 mi, 068° E
- City of Southport - Taylor Field Park (Local Recreation) — 3.8 mi, 072° E
- Crossover Trail (Viewpoint) — 4.3 mi, 281° W
- Orton Creek Preserve (Conservation Area) — 5.0 mi, 010° N
- Zekes Island Estuarine Reserve Dedicated Nature Preserve (Marine Protected Area) — 6.4 mi, 080° E
- North Carolina National Estuarine Research Reserve (Marine Protected Area) — 7.0 mi, 076° E
- Fort Fisher State Recreation Area (State Park) — 8.6 mi, 074° E
- North Carolina Safe Harbor Agreement - Red-cockaded Woodpecker (State Conservation Area) — 8.7 mi, 020° N
- 1921 Fort Fisher Monument (Monument) — 10.2 mi, 064° NE
- Artillery (Attraction) — 10.6 mi, 060° NE
- Naval Gun (Attraction) — 10.6 mi, 060° NE
- Orton Plantation (Attraction) — 13.0 mi, 035° NE
- Brooke Home (Attraction) — 14.2 mi, 049° NE
- Minnie Evans Performing Arts Center (Theatre) — 16.6 mi, 035° NE
- OIB Sign (Public Artwork) — 20.7 mi, 268° W
- Ingram Planetarium (Museum) — 23.8 mi, 269° W
- Cape Fear Serpentarium (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 23.8 mi, 018° N
- Hannah Block Historic USO Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 23.9 mi, 018° N
- Latimer House Museum (Museum) — 23.9 mi, 018° N
- Bellamy Mansion Museum of History & Design Arts (Museum) — 24.2 mi, 019° N
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About This Yaupon Beach Map Page
This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Yaupon Beach, North Carolina. Coordinates: 33.904896, -78.078325. 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 Yaupon Beach includes the ZIP code (28465), telephone area code (910), county seat of Brunswick County (Bolivia), and school district assignment.
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. |
