Explore Parksville, 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 Parksville, 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 Parksville.
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 | Parksville |
| State | South Carolina (SC) |
| County | McCormick County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 33.78624 |
| Longitude | -82.219566 |
| Population | 120 |
| Density | 63.6 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Codes | 29844, 29845 |
| Area Code | 864 |
| County Seat | McCormick |
| School District | McCormick County School District |
Parksville sits amidst the quiet transition where the piedmont soil meets the deepening moisture of the inland woods. It lies 24.5 miles northwest of North Augusta, SC (from North Augusta, SC: bearing 323°T), and is situated 9.8 miles south-southeast of McCormick. The landscape defines itself through a slow, deliberate cadence of undulating earth, where the light at dusk catches the fine, red-clay dust kicked up by the wind, casting a copper glow across the horizon. Beyond the immediate clearing, the density of the woods suggests the vast reach of the Sumter National Forest, while the proximity of J. Strom Thurmond Reservoir lends a heavy, humid stillness to the air. Stevens Creek carves a thin, reflective silver line through the low-lying thickets, its passage marked by the persistent, rhythmic drone of insects that seems to calibrate the very pulse of the afternoon.
Parksville carries the weight of its agricultural ancestry in the weathered architecture that lines its thoroughfares, a silent witness to a time when the economy relied entirely on the yield of these stubborn, fertile fields. Life here moves with the deliberate patience of someone waiting for a crop to turn, a pace that remains untouched by the frantic pulse of the modern world. Residents often find their way to the J. Strom Thurmond Recreation Area to observe the play of shadow over the water, or they venture out to the Turkey Creek Hiking Trail, where the canopy overhead turns the morning sun into a mosaic of flickering amber. Though the Appalachian Mountains remain a distant, hazy suggestion on the far northwestern rim of the sky, they provide a sense of scale to a locale that finds its true character in the intimate, unhurried details of daily existence.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Parksville, South Carolina. Coordinates: 33.78624, -82.219566. 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 Parksville includes the ZIP code (29844, 29845), telephone area code (864), county seat of McCormick County (McCormick), and school district assignment (McCormick 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. |