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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.

CityCarlisle
StateSouth Carolina (SC)
CountySpartanburg County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneEastern Time (America/New_York)
Latitude34.592041
Longitude-81.464513
Population321
Density87.5 /km²
IncorporatedYes
ZIP Codes29316, 29031
Area Code864, 803, 839
County SeatSpartanburg
School DistrictUnion County School District

About Carlisle, South Carolina

Carlisle is a locality in Spartanburg 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 occupies a quiet stretch of the Piedmont, where the land yields to the rhythmic passage of the Little Shoally Creek. It lies 2.6 miles east-northeast of Boiling Springs, SC (from Boiling Springs, SC: bearing 74°T), and is situated 7.4 miles north of Spartanburg. The terrain here holds a subtle, persistent gravity, defined by the red clay earth and the dense, encroaching woods that frame the horizon. On clear days, the distant, hazy silhouette of the Appalachian Mountains marks the western edge of the world, though the immediate scale of Carlisle remains intimate and measured. Two miles away, the surface of Flatwood Lake catches the pale, syrupy light of late afternoon, mirroring the surrounding pines in a dark, glassy stillness that persists long after the wind dies down. Nearby, the grounds of Va-Du-Mar McMillan Park offer a quiet respite, where the air retains the heavy, sweet scent of damp soil and ancient growth.

Carlisle bears the quiet marks of a long history, written in the weathered wood of older structures and the slow, deliberate pace of the local economy. The rhythms of the day are dictated by the land’s enduring agricultural heritage, an inheritance that has persisted through generations of change and reconstruction. Work here is often quiet and solitary, tethered to the patterns of the seasons and the maintenance of property that has stayed within the same hands for decades. Despite the quietude, the atmosphere is never truly stagnant; there is a steady pulse in the way the local life organizes itself around the small, essential exchanges of the day. In the evening, when the heat finally lifts from the fields, the silence that settles over Carlisle feels less like an absence and more like a deliberate, heavy presence, grounding the people who choose to keep their lives tethered to this particular geography.

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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About This Carlisle Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Carlisle, South Carolina. Coordinates: 34.592041, -81.464513. 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 Carlisle includes the ZIP code (29316, 29031), telephone area code (864, 803, 839), county seat of Spartanburg County (Spartanburg), and school district assignment (Union 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 generatedSeptember 2026
Location dataSimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data
Map layersGoogle Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model)
Wikipedia validationArticle content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API.