Explore Ridgeland, 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 Ridgeland, 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 Ridgeland.
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 | Ridgeland |
| State | South Carolina (SC) |
| County | Jasper County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 32.468844 |
| Longitude | -80.921125 |
| Population | 3,758 |
| Density | 30.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 29936 |
| Area Code | 843 |
| County Seat | Ridgeland |
| School District | Jasper County School District |
Ridgeland occupies a quiet, level expanse of the South Carolina interior, where the dark, tea-colored waters of Captain Bill Creek wind through dense thickets of pine and scrub oak. It lies 14.6 miles north-northeast of Hardeeville, SC (from Hardeeville, SC: bearing 24°T), and is situated 18.4 miles west of Beaufort. The horizon remains stubbornly flat, though the faint, hazy silhouette of Laurel Ridge haunts the northwestern distance like a half-remembered dream. Sunlight here has a heavy, syrupy quality during the long afternoons, catching the dust motes that hover above the earth and turning the mid-day air into a shimmering, amber-hued veil. Four miles to the east, the stillness of Willow Pond provides a mirror for the towering hardwoods, while seven miles to the west, the landscape dips into the vast, open stretches of the Hectic Savannas.
Ridgeland serves as a sturdy intersection of memory and labor, where the legacies of agricultural cycles and timber harvests linger in the weathered facades of older buildings. The central gathering point of Town Clock Park anchors the daily movement of people, marking the passage of hours against a backdrop of commerce that has evolved from the early days of turpentine stills and rail-side trade. The local economy relies on the slow, methodical pulse of forestry and regional transport, activities that dictate a life lived close to the soil and the seasons. There is a persistent, grounded dignity in the way the local residents move through the humid mornings, their lives shaped by the quiet endurance of a landscape that has seen the slow layering of generations without ever needing to announce itself to the world.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Ridgeland, South Carolina. Coordinates: 32.468844, -80.921125. 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 Ridgeland includes the ZIP code (29936), telephone area code (843), county seat of Jasper County (Ridgeland), and school district assignment (Jasper 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. |