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Waterloo South Carolina Map

Explore Waterloo, 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 Waterloo, South Carolina

How to Use This Waterloo, South Carolina Map

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

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	Waterloo
State	South Carolina (SC)
County	Laurens County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	34.351513
Longitude	-82.059277
Population	149
Density	32.3 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	29384
Area Code	864
County Seat	Laurens
School District	Laurens School District 55

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About Waterloo, South Carolina

Waterloo is a locality in Laurens County, South Carolina, United States. It is a small community with a population of 149. The population density is 32.3 people per km². Waterloo is located at 34.3515°N, 82.0593°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Waterloo is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 29384.

Waterloo emerges from the deep, verdant interior of the piedmont, a place where the earth holds the heat of the afternoon long after the sun has begun its descent. It lies 12.3 miles north-northeast of Greenwood, SC (from Greenwood, SC: bearing 28°T), and is situated 10.5 miles south-southwest of Laurens. The landscape surrounding Waterloo consists of heavy, red-clay soils that support dense stands of pine and hardwoods, their shadows lengthening across the quiet terrain as dusk settles over the fields. Only fifty-seven miles to the west, the hazy blue silhouettes of the Appalachian Mountains graze the horizon, acting as a distant sentinel to the humid, inland air. Water flows sluggishly through the brush of Long Lick Branch, a modest vein of dark, silty water that meanders through the woods just one mile away, grounding the stillness of the afternoon in the constant, subtle movement of the earth.

History in Waterloo is written not in grand monuments but in the slow reclamation of the land by the forest, a quiet persistence that defines the local character. Economic life here has long been tethered to the cycles of agriculture and the patient extraction of resources from the surrounding woodland, leaving behind the weathered remnants of a life defined by the harvest. Leisure finds its anchor at the Riverfork Access Area, a point of entry to the broader waters of Lake Greenwood, where the vast, glassy expanse of the reservoir offers a counterpoint to the enclosed intensity of the forest. In the evenings, the atmosphere feels weighted with the gravity of generations who have worked this soil, leaving Waterloo to function as a place where the present moment feels remarkably thin, pressed between the dense, ancient woods and the enduring silence of the inland plains.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Riverfork Access Area (Local Recreation) — 2.0 mi, 225° SW
Cross Hill Park (Local Park) — 5.4 mi, 130° SE
Ekom Beach (Historic Ruins) — 7.0 mi, 311° NW
Culbertson’s Mill (Historic Ruins) — 7.0 mi, 310° NW
Cliff Pitts Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 9.4 mi, 313° NW
Lake Rabon (Local Recreation) — 9.7 mi, 333° NW
River Street Park (Local Park) — 9.9 mi, 018° N
Rebecca At The Well (Public Artwork) — 10.0 mi, 244° SW
Payne Institute Monument (Monument) — 10.1 mi, 243° SW
Laurens County Museum (Museum) — 10.5 mi, 014° N
Revolutionary War Museum & Library (Museum) — 10.5 mi, 013° N
Hayes Station Monument (Monument) — 10.5 mi, 091° E
Little River Park Stage (Theatre) — 10.7 mi, 015° N
Lake Greenwood State Park (State Park) — 11.5 mi, 154° SE
Josephine B. Abney Cultural Center (Arts Centre) — 12.1 mi, 210° SW
Memorial A-60 Battle Tank (Attraction) — 12.5 mi, 170° S
Confederate Monument (Monument) — 12.8 mi, 208° SW
Clinton Reservoir Tract (Local Conservation Area) — 15.3 mi, 032° NE
Cherokee Museum (Museum) — 15.9 mi, 006° N
Sumter National Forest (National Forest) — 16.1 mi, 230° SW · 375k acres
Gray Court Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 16.4 mi, 354° N
Lesesne Auditorium (Theatre) — 19.0 mi, 266° W
Abbeville County Museum (Museum) — 21.7 mi, 236° SW
S.C. Tennis Hall of Fame (Museum) — 27.4 mi, 296° NW
Diamond Hill Mine (Attraction) — 29.9 mi, 259° W
Studio Jarvis (Gallery) — 33.4 mi, 331° NW
Generator (Attraction) — 35.2 mi, 288° W
Croft State Park (State Park) — 36.1 mi, 018° N
Pisgah National Forest (National Forest) — 70.3 mi, 322° NW · 511k acres
Congaree National Park (National Park) — 77.0 mi, 117° SE · 26k acres

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