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Glenn Springs South Carolina Map

Explore Glenn Springs, 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 Glenn Springs, South Carolina

How to Use This Glenn Springs, South Carolina Map

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

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.

CityGlenn Springs
StateSouth Carolina (SC)
CountySpartanburg County
CountryUnited States of America
TimezoneEastern Time (America/New_York)
Latitude34.812352
Longitude-81.839823
Population263
Density45.8 /km²
IncorporatedN/A
ZIP Code29374
Area Code864
County SeatSpartanburg
School DistrictSpartanburg School District 6

About Glenn Springs, South Carolina

Glenn Springs is a locality in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States. It is a small community with a population of 263. The population density is 45.8 people per km². Glenn Springs is located at 34.8124°N, 81.8398°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 29374.

Glenn Springs emerges from the red-clay piedmont as a quiet intersection of dense hardwood canopy and the persistent, low-slung movement of the Story Branch. It lies 10.8 miles south-southeast of Spartanburg, SC (from Spartanburg, SC: bearing 151°T), and is situated 8.5 miles east-southeast of Roebuck. The landscape surrounding Glenn Springs is defined by the slow erosion of the earth into gentle, forested swells, a terrain that feels ancient and indifferent to the hurried pace of the modern interstate. To the west, the distant, hazy silhouette of the Appalachian Mountains anchors the horizon, providing a permanent backdrop of blue-gray stone against the heavy, humid heat of the afternoons. Only three miles away, the quiet waters of Burroughs Pond hold the reflection of the sky with a mirror-like stillness, while the nearby expanse of Croft State Park offers a sanctuary of pine and oak that remains largely untouched by the encroaching reach of regional development.

History in Glenn Springs remains tethered to the mineral waters that once drew travelers from across the state in search of restoration, leaving behind a legacy of faded grandeur that haunts the local landscape. The economy has long since shifted away from those early Victorian-era aspirations, settling instead into a rhythm defined by the land’s agricultural roots and the steady, unpretentious labor of the upstate. Remnants of that former prominence linger in the architecture of the older houses, their porches weathered by decades of summer storms, standing as silent witnesses to a time when the locality functioned as a destination for the weary. Today, the pace of life is dictated by the turning of the seasons and the cycle of the forest, with the surrounding woods and the persistent flow of the Story Branch reminding those who pass through that the land carries a long, slow memory of its own.

Nearby Outdoor Places

  • Croft State Park (State Park) — 2.3 mi, 357° N
  • Colonel John Thomas and His Wife Jane Thomas (Monument) — 4.1 mi, 012° N
  • Old Canaan Park (Local Park) — 7.0 mi, 327° NW
  • 295 Sports Complex (Local Recreation) — 7.7 mi, 338° N
  • Duncan Park (Local Park) — 8.9 mi, 334° NW
  • Rebirth (Monument) — 8.9 mi, 360° N
  • Jonesville Reservoir (Local Recreation) — 9.2 mi, 073° E
  • Wade's mural (Public Artwork) — 9.3 mi, 338° N
  • Balmer Foundation Amphitheater (Theatre) — 9.3 mi, 338° N
  • Battle of Blackstock's Historical Marker (Monument) — 9.3 mi, 170° S
  • Santee Cooper Tract Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 10.3 mi, 014° N
  • Upstate Gallery on Main (Gallery) — 10.8 mi, 332° NW
  • Studio LB (Gallery) — 10.8 mi, 332° NW
  • Ridge Gallery (Gallery) — 10.8 mi, 332° NW
  • Children's Museum of the Upstate - Spartanburg (Museum) — 10.9 mi, 331° NW
  • Spartanburg Science Center (Museum) — 11.0 mi, 332° NW
  • Chapman Cultural Center (Arts Centre) — 11.0 mi, 332° NW
  • Spartanburg Art Museum (Museum) — 11.0 mi, 332° NW
  • David Reid Theatre (Theatre) — 11.0 mi, 332° NW
  • Sumter National Forest (National Forest) — 12.2 mi, 157° SE · 375k acres
  • Cross Keys School (Historic Ruins) — 12.9 mi, 164° S
  • John C. Calhoun Experimental Forest (Recreation Easement) — 13.7 mi, 146° SE
  • Florence Chappel High School (Historic Ruins) — 17.9 mi, 303° NW
  • Lake John D. Long (State Recreation Area) — 18.3 mi, 098° E
  • Cherokee Museum (Museum) — 19.4 mi, 214° SW
  • Truck (Attraction) — 20.9 mi, 030° NE
  • Gaffney Visitors Center & Art Gallery (Attraction) — 21.2 mi, 031° NE
  • Worth Mountain Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 21.8 mi, 065° NE
  • Kings Mountain State Park (State Park) — 32.4 mi, 050° NE
  • Pisgah National Forest (National Forest) — 60.5 mi, 356° N · 511k acres

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About This Glenn Springs Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Glenn Springs, South Carolina. Coordinates: 34.812352, -81.839823. 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 Glenn Springs includes the ZIP code (29374), telephone area code (864), county seat of Spartanburg County (Spartanburg), and school district assignment (Spartanburg School District 6).

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.