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Cullowhee, North Carolina Map Art
Building by building, with labeled streets and shaded relief.
12" x 18" Archival Matte Print
A Map of Home. A Work of Art.
Explore Cullowhee, North Carolina from a whole new perspective. Created using aerial imagery and detailed geographic data, this map captures Cullowhee building by building, with labeled streets, familiar landmarks, and shaded topographical relief that highlights the natural contours of the landscape.
Combining modern data with the timeless character of a vintage atlas, this map is just as interesting up close as it is beautiful on the wall. Whether you grew up in Cullowhee, spent memorable years there, or call it home today, this unique map is a great way to celebrate a place that means something to you. Zoom in on the preview to look for your street, and then order a print to put your memories on the wall.
Three ways to hang it
Unframed archival matte, a black wood frame or a white wood frame.
Up close
Geography Worth Displaying
This map was created using accurate cartographic data and authoritative geographic sources, including the U.S. Geological Survey and the Census Bureau. The map brings together terrain, waterways, roads, and building detail. The majority of the streets are labeled, houses are accurately depicted, and the topography is derived from government sources. Combining local data with carefully composed color and shading leads to this beautifully detailed Cullowhee artwork for your wall.
Rather than simply showing street outlines, we’ve included as many of the street names as we could reasonably fit on the map while keeping their names legible. Zoom in on the high resolution preview to see exactly what’s on the map. We truly set out to create a statement piece for anyone who loves Cullowhee. So whether it’s for you, or a gift for someone you love, we hope this map of Cullowhee brings back fond memories.
Read the story behind this map of Cullowhee, North Carolina from 2026.
Find your street
Names on the Cullowhee map
Every name below is printed on this map. Look for your street, your school, the park where you played, or the pond down the road.
Places and landmarks1
- River Park
Streets and roads100
- Highway 107
- State Road 1330
- Centennial Drive
- Old Highway 107
- State Road 1336
- Monteith Gap Road
- State Road 1001
- Cullowhee Mountain Road
- Ledbetter Road
- State Road 1337
- Nccat Drive
- River Park Drive
- Oak Forest Drive
- West Rogers Road
- Norton Road
- State Road 1002
- Old Cullowhee Road
- Edgewater Road
- State Road 1732
- State Road 1512
- Little Savannah Road
- State Road 1367
- Central Drive
- State Road 1731
- State Road 1170
- Forest Hills Road
- South Painter Road
- Casey Road
- Killian Road
- Peak Drive
Show all 100 streets
- Speedwell Road
- Buzzard's Roost Road
- Lyle Wilson Drive
- Gudger Hill Road
- Airport Road
- Centenial Drive
- Catamount Road
- Joyner Drive
- Ind Place
- Madison Road
- Canterbury Road
- Blackhawk Road
- Ed Norton Road
- Carrot Drive
- Stadium View Drive
- Chancellors Drive
- Circle Drive
- Zuni Drive
- Pointe Lane
- Warp Drive
- Independence Place
- Citadel Drive
- Bayside Drive
- Derby Road
- Tigerlily Court
- University Way
- University Heights Road
- State Road 1552
- State Road 1169
- Wayehutta Road
- Speedwell Acres Road
- State Road 1332
- State Road 1338
- Searcy Mountain Road
- Faculty Drive
- Westside Drive
- Cullowhee Heights Road
- Waycross Road
- Travis Road
- Resevoir Ridge Drive
- Turquoise Lane
- Devin Drive
- Barley Lane
- Canyon Creek Drive
- Toad Road
- Merlite Court
- Freedom Drive
- Arcola Road
- Pencil Lane
- Moonshadow Mountain Road
- Alta View Drive
- Briar Patch Road
- Legacy Lane
- Periwinkle Lane
- Dixs Gap Circle
- El Dorado Lane
- Deerfield Trail
- State Road 1545
- Cavalier Drive
- Old Cullownee Road
- Jim Gudger Hill Road
- State Road 1333
- State Road 1329
- Amarillo Place
- North Country Club Drive
- Tracer Lane
- Overlook Drive
- Cats Den Drive
- Indigo Lane
- Hughes Park Drive
Names are listed as they appear on the printed map. Zoom into the product photos to find them.
About Cullowhee, North Carolina
Cullowhee is a community of 7,682 people in Jackson County, set where the Tuckasegee River runs through a valley. Long before any town stood here, a Cherokee village grew up around Cullowhee Mound, an earthwork platform mound raised by the South Appalachian Mississippian culture by about 1000 CE. Digs at the mound show that people were living in this valley as early as 3000 BCE, and the Cherokee later built large council houses on mounds like it, where the town's elders gathered to decide things together.
In the early nineteenth century the Cherokee were forced to give up their land here. European-American settlers then moved onto the old village site, so Cullowhee became one of the earliest white settlements in the county. By most accounts they opened a one-room school in 1830, and over the 1800s they cleared more of the floodplain for farming than the Cherokee had ever planted.
- Judacullah's PlaceFor years people said the name meant "Valley of the Lilies." It actually comes from the Cherokee phrase joolth-cullah-wee, or "Judacullah's Place." The Cherokee believe Judacullah, a giant warrior and hunter, lived in this area, and he remains an important figure in their religion and culture.
- A high school in 1889Robert Lee Madison founded Cullowhee High School in 1889 in a small one-story wooden building. It grew into a normal school for training teachers, and after the legislature paid for campus improvements in 1901, it was renamed Cullowhee Normal and Industrial School in 1905. Later it added a four-year college course and graduate programs. Today it is Western Carolina University, with about 12,000 students on roughly 600 acres.
- Painter's post officeIn 1883 Roland A. Painter opened Painter Post Office inside his store on the Old Cullowhee Road, and other businesses soon set up around it. In 1908 the post office took the name Cullowhee, replacing another office near Forest Hills.
- The flood of 1940A huge flood in 1940 crested 21 feet above Cullowhee Dam, the highest mark on record. It destroyed almost every building on the north side of the river, while the waterlogged buildings on the south side survived. The town rebuilt on higher ground around Old Cullowhee Road and left the low floodplain behind. Later, dams went up on both of the Tuckasegee's upper forks, the East Fork and the West Fork, to hold back floods.
- A church from 1880St. David's-in-the-Valley Episcopal Church was built in 1880. It is the oldest surviving building put up by European-American settlers in the area.
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The art of mapping a place
How This Map Was Made
Real places. Remarkable detail. Discover the layers that turn geographic data into a map of home.
The view from above
Aerial imagery reveals the character of the land: woodland, open fields, and the patterns of a place.
The shape of the land
Elevation data brings hills, valleys, and subtle changes in the landscape into view.
The details of home
Roads, waterways, and building footprints come together to make the map feel unmistakably local.
Geography becomes art
Considered color, shading, and typography bring the layers together in a map made for your wall.
Process illustrated with Mendon, Massachusetts. Aerial imagery: USDA NAIP. Terrain: USGS 3D Elevation Program. Map details and finished artwork: KNOWOL.
The Details
About This Print
Choose an archival matte print, or a black or white Ayous wood frame. The archival matte print is unframed.
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Materials & Craftsmanship
A contemporary map with the character of a classic atlas, printed on archival matte paper. Optional frames are made from Ayous wood.
Your printed map does not include the watermark shown in the full-map preview.
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