Explore Brookdale, South 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 Brookdale, South 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 South 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 Brookdale.
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 | Brookdale |
| State | South Carolina (SC) |
| County | Orangeburg County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 33.520783 |
| Longitude | -80.838367 |
| Population | 3,845 |
| Density | 407.6 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 29365, 29115 |
| Area Code | 864, 803 |
| County Seat | Orangeburg |
| School District | Orangeburg County School District |
Brookdale emerges from the humid, inland expanse of the South Carolina landscape, defined primarily by the slow, dark pulse of the Whitford Stage Swamp that delineates its western perimeter. It lies 2.1 miles east-northeast of Orangeburg, SC (from Orangeburg, SC: bearing 61°T), and is situated 0.6 miles east-northeast of Wilkinson Heights. The air here holds a heavy, velvet stillness, especially as the late afternoon light catches the dense, tangled hardwoods that crowd the low-lying terrain. Two miles away, the quiet surface of Gramling Pond acts as a mirror for the towering pines, while on the distant horizon, the faint, hazy suggestion of Mullers Barn Ridge provides a jagged anchor to the sky. Brookdale occupies a space where the earth feels soft and damp, a place where the soil clings to the boots of those who traverse the thickets and the shaded, dirt-packed lanes that wind toward the perimeter of Hillcrest Recreational Park.
Economic life in Brookdale has long been tethered to the rhythmic demands of the timber and agricultural cycles, a legacy that survives in the weathered siding of the old silos and the modest, utilitarian architecture of the main thoroughfare. Generations have labored under the shade of the canopy, their work rhythms dictated by the shifting humidity and the seasonal drainage of the lowlands that flow toward the basin of Robinsons Bay. Unlike the bustling centers further toward the state’s interior, Brookdale maintains a deliberate, muted character, a quiet endurance fostered by families who have worked the same tracts of land since the region’s early settlement. Even now, as the sun dips below the tree line, the town feels less like a fixed point on a map and more like a slow, steady breath drawn from the cooling woods.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Brookdale, South Carolina. Coordinates: 33.520783, -80.838367. 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 Brookdale includes the ZIP code (29365, 29115), telephone area code (864, 803), county seat of Orangeburg County (Orangeburg), and school district assignment (Orangeburg County School District).
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. |