Explore Glendale, 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 Glendale, 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 Glendale.
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 | Glendale |
| State | South Carolina (SC) |
| County | Greenwood County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 34.945078 |
| Longitude | -81.836373 |
| Population | 244 |
| Density | 444.4 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 29506, 29550, 29649, 29346 |
| Area Code | 864 |
| County Seat | Greenwood |
| School District | Spartanburg School District 3 |
Glendale anchors itself in the rolling piedmont landscape where the persistent waters of Rocky Creek carve a steady, purposeful path through the red clay earth. It lies 2.3 miles north of Greenwood, SC (from Greenwood, SC: bearing 9°T), and is situated 8.4 miles west-northwest of Ninety Six. The air here holds a heavy, humid stillness during the summer months, often clinging to the dense woodlands that define the horizon. To the far west, the faint, jagged silhouette of the Appalachian Mountains occasionally breaks the haze of a clear afternoon, though they remain a distant boundary for the life moving through these hills. Just a mile away, the Greenwood Recreation Complex offers a quiet expanse of managed green space, while the calm surface of Citizens Trust Pond sits two miles to the east, reflecting the shifting colors of the sky as the sun retreats behind the pines.
Glendale emerged from the industrial ambitions of the textile era, its identity forged by the brick walls of mills that once harnessed the kinetic energy of the nearby creek. While the hum of machinery has long since faded from the center of daily life, the architecture remains as a sturdy, weathered reminder of a time when the economy turned entirely on the spindle and the loom. The pace of existence in Glendale follows the slow, deliberate rotation of the seasons, characterized by the scent of pine needles and the quiet persistence of people who have seen the town shift from a bustling manufacturing hub to a place of hushed residential rhythms. Even today, the legacy of that industrious past lingers in the masonry of old buildings, grounding the community in a history that values endurance over flash.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Glendale, South Carolina. Coordinates: 34.945078, -81.836373. 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 Glendale includes the ZIP code (29506, 29550, 29649), telephone area code (864), county seat of Greenwood County (Greenwood), and school district assignment (Spartanburg School District 3).
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. |