Explore Varnville, 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 Varnville, 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 Varnville.
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 | Varnville |
| State | South Carolina (SC) |
| County | Hampton County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 32.850444 |
| Longitude | -81.079272 |
| Population | 1,669 |
| Density | 168.2 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 29944 |
| Area Code | 843 |
| County Seat | Hampton |
| School District | Hampton County School District |
Varnville occupies a flat, expansive stretch of the South Carolina interior where the air holds a permanent, heavy dampness that settles over the pine needles and sandy soil. It lies 37.5 miles northwest of Beaufort, SC (from Beaufort, SC: bearing 321°T), and is situated 3.4 miles southeast of Hampton. Sunlight filters through the canopy in thin, dusty shafts, illuminating the quiet passage of Sanders Branch as it winds its way through the dense undergrowth only a mile from the center of activity. To the north, the distant outline of Laurel Ridge haunts the horizon like a jagged memory, though here the terrain remains stubbornly level, defined by drainage ditches and the encroaching shadows of thick timber. Residents often spend their afternoons at Pine Street Park, where the grass grows thick and the silence is broken only by the occasional rustle of squirrels or the hum of a distant truck on the highway.
Varnville grew from the steady labor of timber and rail, industries that once dictated the pulse of the local economy and forged the hard-working character of its people. The rhythm of daily life moves with a deliberate, measured pace, influenced by the slow accumulation of seasons and the quiet persistence of family ties that stretch back for generations. Beyond the town limits, the waters of Maulding Millpond offer a still, reflective surface that mirrors the changing sky, providing a stark contrast to the industrious work of the lumber yards and processing mills that have long defined the region. This is a landscape of endurance, where the weight of history is felt in the architecture of older buildings and the way the shadows lengthen across the porch boards as the humid day finally begins to cool.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Varnville, South Carolina. Coordinates: 32.850444, -81.079272. 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 Varnville includes the ZIP code (29944), telephone area code (843), county seat of Hampton County (Hampton), and school district assignment (Hampton 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. |