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Whitney South Carolina Map

Explore Whitney, 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 Whitney, South Carolina

How to Use This Whitney, South Carolina Map

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

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

Latitude	34.984289
Longitude	-81.926493
Population	4,409
Density	558.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	29303
Area Code	864
County Seat	Spartanburg
School District	Spartanburg School District 7

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About Whitney, South Carolina

Whitney is a locality in Spartanburg County, South Carolina, United States. It has a population of approximately 4,409. The population density is 558.0 people per km². Whitney is located at 34.9843°N, 81.9265°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 29303.

Whitney occupies a space where the Piedmont plateau begins to soften, defined by the persistent, winding movement of Lawsons Fork Creek as it carves through the red clay earth. It lies 2.4 miles north of Spartanburg, SC (from Spartanburg, SC: bearing 7°T), and is situated 5.3 miles southeast of Boiling Springs. The landscape around Whitney holds the quiet intensity of the inland South, where the air in late afternoon takes on a heavy, golden quality that seems to suspend the surrounding woodlands in a permanent, amber stillness. Two miles away, the quiet waters of Waldrops Lake reflect the deep greens of the timber, while the distant, hazy silhouettes of the Appalachian Mountains provide a jagged, blue-gray boundary to the horizon. Residents often find their way to the shaded pathways of Adams Park, a space that serves as a necessary lung for the local terrain, offering a reprieve of cooling shade and the scent of damp pine needles.

Industry once defined the rhythm of the days in Whitney, as the hum of textile mills served as the heartbeat for generations of families who built their lives around the steady cadence of the looms. Though the physical remnants of that era have shifted, the character of the place remains tied to its history of hard labor and the resilience of the people who navigated the transition from the mill-based economy to the modern day. Life here moves with a pragmatic, unadorned focus, marked by the simple sounds of engines on local roads and the seasonal shift in the color of the fields. Whitney endures as a place of deliberate, grounded continuity, where the collective memory of the community persists in the architecture of the older streets and the enduring connection to the land that sustains it.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Adams Park (Local Recreation) — 1.2 mi, 152° SE
Small Gear (Public Artwork) — 1.4 mi, 133° SE
Roger Milliken Garden (Monument) — 1.7 mi, 273° W
Cleveland Park (Local Recreation) — 1.8 mi, 225° SW
College Seal (Monument) — 1.8 mi, 195° S
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 1.8 mi, 176° S
Jerome Johnson Richardson Theatre (Theatre) — 1.9 mi, 193° S
Rainey Amphitheater (Theatre) — 1.9 mi, 170° S
Dexter Edgar Converse Monument (Monument) — 2.1 mi, 165° S
Fairfield Park (Local Park) — 2.1 mi, 220° SW
Spartanburg Science Center (Museum) — 2.2 mi, 184° S
Chapman Cultural Center (Arts Centre) — 2.2 mi, 185° S
Spartanburg Art Museum (Museum) — 2.2 mi, 185° S
Studio LB (Gallery) — 2.3 mi, 183° S
Upstate Gallery on Main (Gallery) — 2.4 mi, 184° S
Ridge Gallery (Gallery) — 2.4 mi, 185° S
Children's Museum of the Upstate - Spartanburg (Museum) — 2.4 mi, 190° S
Croft State Park (State Park) — 6.0 mi, 151° SE
Santee Cooper Tract Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 7.4 mi, 103° E
Florence Chappel High School (Historic Ruins) — 10.2 mi, 259° W
Cherokee County Veterans Museum (Museum) — 16.6 mi, 068° E
Truck (Attraction) — 16.6 mi, 068° E
Gaffney Visitors Center & Art Gallery (Attraction) — 17.0 mi, 068° E
M106a1 (Attraction) — 17.1 mi, 258° W
Sumter National Forest (National Forest) — 25.1 mi, 157° SE · 375k acres
Paris Mountain State Park (State Park) — 25.2 mi, 261° W
Pisgah National Forest (National Forest) — 46.2 mi, 338° N · 511k acres

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