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Grantsville West Virginia Map

Explore Grantsville, West Virginia, 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 Grantsville, West Virginia

How to Use This Grantsville, West Virginia Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Grantsville, West Virginia. 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 West Virginia 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 Grantsville.

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	Grantsville
State	West Virginia (WV)
County	Calhoun County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	38.92342
Longitude	-81.095946
Population	494
Density	438.5 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	26147
Area Code	304
County Seat	Grantsville
School District	Calhoun County School District

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About Grantsville, West Virginia

Grantsville is a locality in Calhoun County, West Virginia, United States. It is a small community with a population of 494. The population density is 438.5 people per km². Grantsville is located at 38.9234°N, 81.0959°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Grantsville is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 26147.

Grantsville reveals its character through the persistent, quiet passage of the Simon Run, which carves a path through the earth near the center of the landscape. It lies 34.4 miles southeast of Parkersburg, WV (from Parkersburg, WV: bearing 133°T), and is situated 16.1 miles east-northeast of Spencer. The surrounding terrain is defined by the deep, verdant folds of the Appalachian landscape, where the land rises into steep, timbered inclines that seem to catch the fading light of late afternoon in long, bruised ribbons of violet and gold. Only a few miles away, the quiet canopy of Calhoun County Park offers a reprieve of dense, tangled woodland, while the distant, hazy silhouette of the Appalachian Mountains marks the extreme horizon. The air here holds a particular weight, smelling of damp earth and slow-growing oak, a sensory reminder of the isolation found in the nearby basin of Poplar Hollow.

Grantsville carries the quiet, enduring gravity of a place built on the extraction of resources and the stubborn persistence of those who remained after the booms subsided. Once tethered to the pulse of the oil and gas industries, the local economy now moves with a deliberate, cautious pace, reflecting a history shaped by the labor of generations who worked the ridges and hollows. Life in Grantsville persists in the small, repeated gestures of daily maintenance—the tending of gardens, the repair of porches, and the slow transit of vehicles along narrow blacktop roads. Residents look toward the distant, shimmering surface of Miletree Lakes when the summer heat grows heavy, yet the true identity of the place remains anchored to the ground itself, a rugged autonomy that refuses to be diminished by the quietude of its surroundings.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Calhoun County Park (Local Park) — 3.3 mi, 180° S
Stumptown Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 5.0 mi, 134° SE
Little Kanawha River Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 6.8 mi, 298° NW
Cedar Creek State Park (State Park) — 11.5 mi, 108° E
Old Stone Trough (Monument) — 11.9 mi, 104° E
Presidents Wall (Monument) — 14.1 mi, 086° E
Smith-Bush Farm (Monument) — 14.9 mi, 076° E
North Bend State Park (State Park) — 19.4 mi, 004° N
Mini Farm Figurines (Public Artwork) — 28.6 mi, 320° NW
Battle of Bulltown Confederate Entrenchments (Registered Battlefield) — 30.0 mi, 108° E
Battle of Bulltown Union Entrenchments (Registered Battlefield) — 30.1 mi, 108° E
Falls Mill Overlook (Viewpoint) — 31.0 mi, 109° E
Southwood Stage (Theatre) — 32.7 mi, 312° NW
Ohio River Islands National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 32.8 mi, 349° N · 6,562 acres
Veterans Museum (Museum) — 33.2 mi, 316° NW
Wayne National Forest (National Forest) — 33.6 mi, 349° N · 243k acres
Actors Guild (Theatre) — 34.3 mi, 314° NW
Fort Boreman Magazine (Historic Ruins) — 34.5 mi, 313° NW
Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum (West Virginia Hospital for the Insane/Weston State Hospital) (Museum) — 34.6 mi, 076° E
Mid-Ohio Railroad Museum (Museum) — 35.6 mi, 314° NW
Washington's Western Lands Museum (Museum) — 35.7 mi, 272° W
Falling Rock Smoke stack (Historic Ruins) — 35.9 mi, 206° SW
Gallery 310 (Gallery) — 38.9 mi, 331° NW
Atrium Gallery (Gallery) — 38.9 mi, 331° NW
Peddler of Dreams Art Space for Children (Arts Centre) — 39.0 mi, 331° NW
Gauley River National Recreation Area (National Recreation Area) — 47.0 mi, 176° S · 5,067 acres
Monongahela National Forest (National Forest) — 48.0 mi, 144° SE · 922k acres
Cranberry Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 54.6 mi, 139° SE · 48k acres
New River Gorge National Park and Preserve (National Conservation Area) — 55.6 mi, 182° S · 53k acres

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