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Piedmont West Virginia Map

Explore Piedmont, 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 Piedmont, West Virginia

How to Use This Piedmont, West Virginia Map

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

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

Latitude	39.477811
Longitude	-79.046543
Population	718
Density	727.6 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Codes	24729, 26750
Area Code	304
County Seat	Princeton
School District	Mineral County School District

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About Piedmont, West Virginia

Piedmont is a locality in Mercer County, West Virginia, United States. It is a small community with a population of 718. The population density is 727.6 people per km². Piedmont is located at 39.4778°N, 79.0465°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Piedmont is an incorporated locality. ZIP codes: 24729, 26750.

Piedmont defines its own boundaries where the persistent flow of the Big Branch carves a narrow, purposeful path through the rugged terrain. It lies 23.0 miles south of Beckley, WV (from Beckley, WV: bearing 190°T), and is situated 12.7 miles north of Bluefield. The landscape surrounding Piedmont is defined by the sharp, vertical geometry of deep ravines and the quietude of Church Hollow, where the shadows grow long and cool well before the sun dips below the horizon. The air here holds a distinct, metallic clarity, often carrying the scent of damp shale and the cooling breath of the deep woods. Beyond the immediate clearing, the land rises in formidable, steep-sided slopes, a rugged expanse that feels indifferent to the passage of seasons, yet remains intensely alive with the rustle of hardwood leaves and the sudden, darting movement of mountain wildlife.

Piedmont carries the heavy, resonant history of an industrial past, shaped by the labor of those who once looked to the earth and the timber for their sustenance. The local economy, once tethered to the rhythmic output of mills and the extraction of resources, now exists in a quieter state of reflection, where the pride of a working-class identity lingers in the architecture of the modest, sturdy houses. While the distant silhouette of the Appalachian Mountains provides a permanent, hazy backdrop to the east, the immediate world for those who live here is centered on the proximity to Camp Creek State Forest, a place of protected stillness only seven miles away. On quiet evenings, the town feels less like a remnant of a bygone era and more like a resilient, self-contained pocket of existence, where the light catches the gray stone of the hills and turns the surface of the landscape into something unexpectedly luminous and enduring.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Unknown Park (Local Park) — 0.2 mi, 039° NE
Lp5014 (Local Park) — 0.7 mi, 332° NW
Allegheny Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 2.0 mi, 254° W
Dans Mountain Wma (State Conservation Area) — 2.2 mi, 085° E
Jennings Randolph Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 2.9 mi, 239° SW
Savage River Sf (State Resource Management Area) — 3.3 mi, 348° N
Landis Property (State Recreation Area) — 3.3 mi, 119° SE
Savage River State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 3.9 mi, 296° NW
Eroded Outcropping (Attraction) — 5.0 mi, 306° NW
Jennings Randolph Lake (Recreation Area) — 5.1 mi, 233° SW
The Waffle Rock panorama (Viewpoint) — 5.4 mi, 231° SW
Piercie Paugh Homestead Site (Historic Ruins) — 6.2 mi, 232° SW
Big Run Sp (State Park) — 6.6 mi, 315° NW
Dans Mountain State Park (State Park) — 7.0 mi, 040° NE
Buisness Lot (Monument) — 12.4 mi, 026° NE
Brownsville/Park Avenue Monument (Monument) — 13.6 mi, 027° NE
Old Cherry Glade Meetinghouse (Attraction) — 14.6 mi, 309° NW
First Toll Gate House (Monument) — 15.2 mi, 043° NE
Spruce Forest Artisan Village (Attraction) — 15.9 mi, 341° N
The Rock - Allegany County Speedway (Stadium) — 16.0 mi, 056° NE
Blind Skier and Camper Art Installation (Public Artwork) — 16.8 mi, 293° NW
Fort Mill Ridge (Historic Ruins) — 17.2 mi, 128° SE
Davis History House (Museum) — 18.0 mi, 121° SE
Hampshire County Artist Co-op (Arts Centre) — 18.1 mi, 121° SE
Taggart Hall Civil War Museum & Visitors Center (Museum) — 18.1 mi, 121° SE
Embassy Theatre (Theatre) — 19.3 mi, 052° NE
Allegany Museum (Museum) — 19.3 mi, 051° NE
The Three Stars Arts (Gallery) — 19.3 mi, 052° NE
Greenway Avenue Stadium (Stadium) — 19.5 mi, 054° NE
Monongahela National Forest (National Forest) — 30.8 mi, 202° S · 922k acres

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