Explore Bayside, 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 Bayside, 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 Bayside.
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 | Bayside |
| State | Virginia (VA) |
| County | Westmoreland County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 37.754788 |
| Longitude | -75.712852 |
| Population | 107 |
| Density | 24.5 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 23455, 23138, 22520, 23417 |
| Area Code | 540, 757 |
| County Seat | Montross |
| School District | Accomack County Public Schools |
Bayside occupies a quiet expanse of inland territory where the earth holds the heat of the day long after the sun dips behind the western horizon. It lies 15.5 miles southwest of Lexington Park, MD (from Lexington Park, MD: bearing 224°T), and is situated 9.8 miles southwest of Valley Lee. The Lower Machodoc Creek carves a meditative path through this landscape, its dark, slow-moving waters providing a consistent rhythm to the surrounding fields and dense stands of timber. Only two miles away, the surface of Long Pond reflects the changing sky, offering a stillness that defines the local atmosphere. While the distant Blue Ridge Mountains remain a faint, jagged silhouette against the western sky, the immediate topography is dominated by the sprawling, untamed acreage of Hull Springs Farm. Here, the air carries a dry, earthen scent, and the light at dusk turns the tall grasses into a field of burnished copper, grounding the observer in a land that feels both ancient and enduring.
Bayside maintains a character shaped by the steady, unpretentious cycles of agricultural labor and the quiet preservation of its interior acreage. The local economy remains tethered to the land, drawing sustenance from the soil and the careful stewardship of the woods that persist despite the encroaching reach of regional development. Life moves with a deliberate, measured pace, influenced by the long, deep-rooted memory of the rural South that lingers in the architecture and the way neighbors greet one another in the heat of midday. Travelers passing through might notice how the shadows lengthen across Porters Meadow, ten miles distant, or observe the way the community centers itself around the rhythms of the seasons rather than the frantic pulse of the modern world. It is a place that demands little, offering instead a rare, quiet clarity to those who choose to observe the way the light catches the dust on a gravel road or the patient movement of the creek as it winds toward the interior plains.
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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 Westmoreland County (Montross), and school district assignment (Accomack 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. |