Explore Georgetown, 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 Georgetown, 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 Georgetown.
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 | Georgetown |
| State | South Carolina (SC) |
| County | Pickens County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 33.372432 |
| Longitude | -79.280793 |
| Population | 8,403 |
| Density | 464.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Codes | 29640, 29440 |
| Area Code | 864 |
| County Seat | Pickens |
| School District | Georgetown County School District |
Georgetown emerges from the inland terrain as a quiet confluence of red clay and sprawling woodland, marked by the steady, unobserved movement of the Little Georges Creek. It lies 4.0 miles west-northwest of Parker, SC (from Parker, SC: bearing 283°T), and is situated 7.3 miles west of Greenville. The land here is defined by deep, shadowed forest floors and the persistent, humid warmth that clings to the vegetation, with the distant, blue-hued silhouettes of the Appalachian Mountains anchoring the western horizon. Residents often find their way toward the stillness of Saluda Lake or the manicured trails of Northwest Park, where the light at dusk filters through the canopy in long, amber slats, illuminating the dust motes and the quiet endurance of the local timber.
Georgetown holds a deliberate pace, its economy long anchored in the rhythms of agriculture and the modest industry that follows the path of the regional waterways. The legacy of the area is etched into the very soil, where the remnants of earlier settlements persist alongside the modern quietude of the backcountry. Visitors occasionally venture toward the sound of Reedy River Falls, a place where the water’s persistent friction against stone provides a constant, low-frequency hum that seems to define the character of the region. Life in Georgetown continues with a measured gravity, indifferent to the clamor of the wider world, favoring instead the steady cycles of the seasons and the slow, deliberate work of those who call these inland hills their own.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Georgetown, South Carolina. Coordinates: 33.372432, -79.280793. 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 Georgetown includes the ZIP code (29640, 29440), telephone area code (864), county seat of Pickens County (Pickens), and school district assignment (Georgetown 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. |