Explore Arcola, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Arcola, 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 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 Arcola.
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 | Arcola |
| State | Virginia (VA) |
| County | Loudoun County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 38.951777 |
| Longitude | -77.534158 |
| Population | 2,412 |
| Density | 407.6 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 20166 |
| Area Code | 571, 703 |
| County Seat | Leesburg |
| School District | Loudoun County Public Schools |
Arcola maintains a quiet presence amidst the expansive, undulating plateau of Northern Virginia, where the land is defined by the steady, rhythmic passage of the South Fork Broad Run. It lies 1.9 miles northeast of Stone Ridge, VA (from Stone Ridge, VA: bearing 37°T), and is situated 9.6 miles northwest of Centreville. The landscape here is characterized by a subtle interplay of open fields and clusters of hardwood, an interior terrain that remains distant from the reach of the distant Blue Ridge Mountains, which appear only as a faint, violet smudge against the western horizon at dusk. Residents often gather at the Ballfields at Old Arcola Community Center, a site that anchors the immediate geography, while the atmosphere is frequently cooled by the presence of Beaverdam Reservoir just a few miles to the west. In the late afternoon, the light takes on a particular, heavy clarity, casting long shadows across the soil and emphasizing the stillness that settles over the fields as the day wanes.
Arcola bears the quiet weight of a long agricultural history, having transitioned from its roots in rural farming to a modern intersection of residential life and the encroaching influence of the regional tech corridor. While the echoes of its colonial past remain in the architecture and the orientation of the old roads, the economy has shifted toward the professional demands of the modern era, leaving the pace of life in a state of delicate suspension between memory and progress. Beyond the immediate vicinity, the landscape deepens toward the Conway-Robinson Memorial State Forest and the low relief of Jackson Hollow, both of which serve as reminders of the wider, undeveloped reaches of the Piedmont. Arcola functions today as a place of transition, where the urgency of contemporary commerce is tempered by the enduring, quiet gravity of the land itself.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Arcola, Virginia. Coordinates: 38.951777, -77.534158. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.
Detailed location data for Arcola includes the ZIP code (20166), telephone area code (571, 703), county seat of Loudoun County (Leesburg), and school district assignment (Loudoun County Public Schools).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |