Bayside Virginia Map

About Bayside, Virginia

Bayside is a locality in Mathews County, Virginia, United States. It is a small community with a population of 107. The population density is 24.5 people per km². Bayside is located at 37.7548°N, 75.7129°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 23455, 23138, 22520.

Bayside occupies a low-slung stretch of land where the horizon feels expansive and the air holds a persistent, brackish weight. It lies 12.2 miles east-northeast of Gloucester Point, VA (from Gloucester Point, VA: bearing 66°T), and is situated 16.6 miles north-northeast of Tabb. The landscape here does not reach for the sky but instead bows toward the water, characterized by flat, marshy plains that shift color from a muted emerald in the spring to a brittle, sun-bleached copper by late summer. Deep Creek curls through the periphery, its tidal movements dictating the pulse of the soil, while the silence of the Mathews Land Conservancy Holding provides a buffer of protected wildness against the encroachment of modern development. On clear days, the faint, jagged silhouette of Blackwalnut Ridge haunts the western distance, a reminder of a topography far more rugged than the soft, silt-heavy earth underfoot.

Bayside carries the quiet gravity of a place that has long balanced its colonial agricultural roots with the quiet demands of a modern local economy. Fishing and small-scale maritime commerce have historically defined the movement of labor here, though the rhythm of daily life has transitioned into a steady, methodical pace centered on the maintenance of these coastal fringes. The nearby Poquoson Flats serve as a reminder of the region’s geological patience, a vast, open basin that has dictated the limits of local expansion for generations. While the presence of Big Island offshore provides a focal point for the local imagination, the true character of Bayside remains anchored in its relationship to the water, where the gray, reflected light of dusk softens the edges of the docks and turns the surface of Doctors Creek into a sheet of hammered pewter.

About This Bayside Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Bayside, Virginia. Coordinates: 37.754788, -75.712852. 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 Bayside includes the ZIP code (23455, 23138, 22520), telephone area code (540, 757), county seat of Mathews County (Mathews), and school district assignment (Accomack County Public Schools).

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.