Explore Mayo, 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 Mayo, 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 Mayo.
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 | Mayo |
| State | South Carolina (SC) |
| County | Spartanburg County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 35.084011 |
| Longitude | -81.859826 |
| Population | 1,567 |
| Density | 199.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 29368 |
| Area Code | 864 |
| County Seat | Spartanburg |
| School District | Spartanburg School District 2 |
Mayo occupies a quiet stretch of the South Carolina piedmont where the land rises into gentle, clay-rich swells that catch the amber light of late afternoon. It lies 7.4 miles east-northeast of Boiling Springs, SC (from Boiling Springs, SC: bearing 69°T), and is situated 8.0 miles northeast of Valley Falls. Thick woods of pine and hardwood dominate the horizon, creating a dense, verdant boundary that softens the reach of the sky. Nearby, the slow, meandering currents of Island Creek carve through the red earth, providing a constant, low-frequency pulse to the local ecology. While the jagged peaks of the Appalachian Mountains remain distant silhouettes far to the west, the air here feels heavy with the scent of damp soil and sun-warmed needles, a stillness that seems to suspend the passage of hours.
Mayo maintains an economy deeply rooted in the legacy of the upstate, where the rhythmic hum of agriculture and small-scale industry continues to define the daily labor of its residents. The presence of Lake Blalock Park nearby offers a communal space for stillness, where the water mirrors the shifting cloud cover and provides a respite from the exertion of the fields. A few miles further, Lake William C Bowen serves as a primary anchor for the landscape, its expansive surface holding the reflection of the changing seasons. The character of Mayo emerges from this intersection of working land and quiet water, a place where the history of the region is felt not in monuments, but in the enduring patterns of life practiced upon the red clay.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Mayo, South Carolina. Coordinates: 35.084011, -81.859826. 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 Mayo includes the ZIP code (29368), telephone area code (864), county seat of Spartanburg County (Spartanburg), and school district assignment (Spartanburg School District 2).
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. |