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Carlisle South Carolina Map

Explore Carlisle, 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.

Interactive Map of Carlisle, South Carolina

How to Use This Carlisle, South Carolina Map

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

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	Carlisle
State	South Carolina (SC)
County	Union County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	34.592041
Longitude	-81.464513
Population	321
Density	87.5 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Codes	29316, 29031
Area Code	864, 803, 839
County Seat	Union
School District	Union County School District

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About Carlisle, South Carolina

Carlisle is a locality in Union County, South Carolina, United States. It is a small community with a population of 321. The population density is 87.5 people per km². Carlisle is located at 34.5920°N, 81.4645°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Carlisle is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 29316, 29031.

Carlisle exists as a quiet accumulation of red clay and loblolly pine, anchored deep within the humid, inland expanse of the South Carolina piedmont. It lies 23.7 miles north-northeast of Newberry, SC (from Newberry, SC: bearing 22°T), and is situated 12.5 miles southeast of Union. The terrain here rises and falls in measured, earthen swells, far removed from the low-lying coast and defined instead by the steady presence of Coxs Creek, which winds its path through the woods just a mile away. Sunlight during the late afternoon takes on a thick, honeyed quality, catching the dust that rises from unpaved roads and illuminating the stillness of Salinas Pond. To the far west, the distant silhouettes of the Appalachian Mountains provide a jagged, blue-tinted limit to the horizon, though the immediate world of Carlisle remains defined by the dense, tangled greenery and the persistent, slow-moving heat of the interior.

Carlisle maintains a rhythmic connection to its past, where the remnants of agricultural cycles and rail-side industry have faded into a landscape now characterized by quiet, residential persistence. Life here centers around the modest open space of Carlisle Playground, a patch of land that serves as a common ground for those who remain attached to the soil and the legacy of the local mills. The economy has shifted away from the intensive production of earlier decades, leaving behind a pace of life that prizes patience over the frantic pulse of larger hubs. While the thunderous beauty of Hendricks Falls draws visitors ten miles away, the daily experience of Carlisle is found in the hum of insects in the tall grass and the way the shadows lengthen across the porch boards as the day concludes, marking a transition from the labor of the morning to the heavy, cooling dark of the evening.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Carlisle Playground (Local Park) — 0.1 mi, 123° SE
Town of Carlisle Ball Field (Local Recreation) — 0.9 mi, 077° E
Sumter National Forest (National Forest) — 1.2 mi, 163° S · 375k acres
Fish Dam Battleground Monument (Monument) — 2.6 mi, 086° E
Shivar Springs Bottling Company Cisterns (Historic Ruins) — 7.6 mi, 161° S
John C. Calhoun Experimental Forest (Recreation Easement) — 8.4 mi, 277° W
Whitmire Golf Course (Local Recreation) — 9.5 mi, 233° SW
Union Cotton Mills mural (Public Artwork) — 12.4 mi, 314° NW
Lake John D. Long (State Recreation Area) — 12.6 mi, 348° N
Union Mills Monument (Monument) — 12.6 mi, 313° NW
Mountain Lake 1 (State Recreation Area) — 12.6 mi, 069° E
Lake John D. Long/Wildlife Lake (State Resource Management Area) — 12.8 mi, 348° N
Chester State Park (State Park) — 13.6 mi, 064° NE
Thurmond Tract Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 13.9 mi, 347° N
Chester County Transportation Museum (Museum) — 16.3 mi, 060° NE
Pinckneyville Monument (Monument) — 17.4 mi, 359° N
Cross Keys School (Historic Ruins) — 18.1 mi, 279° W
Croft State Park (State Park) — 27.1 mi, 315° NW
Portrait Hill Ampitheatre (Theatre) — 31.0 mi, 160° S
Little River Park Stage (Theatre) — 31.6 mi, 259° W
Laurens County Museum (Museum) — 31.9 mi, 259° W
Revolutionary War Museum & Library (Museum) — 32.0 mi, 259° W
Cherokee Museum (Museum) — 32.3 mi, 269° W
Main Street Children's Museum (Museum) — 33.9 mi, 047° NE
Truck (Attraction) — 34.9 mi, 342° N
Gaffney Visitors Center & Art Gallery (Attraction) — 35.1 mi, 343° N
Studio LB (Gallery) — 36.2 mi, 313° NW
Upstate Gallery on Main (Gallery) — 36.2 mi, 313° NW
Ridge Gallery (Gallery) — 36.2 mi, 313° NW
Congaree National Park (National Park) — 62.2 mi, 146° SE · 26k acres

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