Beaverdam Virginia Map

About Beaverdam, Virginia

Beaverdam is a locality in Hanover County, Virginia, United States. It is a small community with a population of 480. The population density is 12.0 people per km². Beaverdam is located at 37.9413°N, 77.6544°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 23015.

Beaverdam defines the quiet interior of the Piedmont, where the land settles into a slow, deliberate cadence of pine-shadowed forest and open, sun-bleached fields. It lies 16.9 miles north of Wyndham, VA (from Wyndham, VA: bearing 352°T), and is situated 7.4 miles southwest of Lake Land'Or. Pug Swamp snakes through the low-lying terrain, its dark, nutrient-rich waters feeding the tangled undergrowth that defines the local hydrology. To the far west, the hazy, indigo silhouettes of the Blue Ridge Mountains press against the horizon, serving as a distant anchor for a landscape otherwise defined by the unpretentious reach of Virginia’s midlands. The air here holds a particular weight, smelling of damp earth and cooling asphalt, while the light at dusk fractures through the hardwoods to cast long, skeletal bars of amber across the fallow soil. Travelers venturing toward the nearby solitude of James Pond find a geography that is profoundly inland, removed from the restless pulse of the coast and surrendered instead to the stillness of the deep woods.

Beaverdam bears the mark of a long, agrarian inheritance, its identity forged in the slow transition from the tobacco-heavy commerce of the past to the modest, decentralized industry of the modern day. The rhythm of daily life moves in synch with the passing trains and the modest commerce of the crossroads, maintaining a composure that feels untouched by the urgency of the nearby urban corridors. Residents often seek the quiet borders of Kent Park, a preserve that keeps the local connection to the wild intact despite the creeping encroachment of suburban sprawl. There is a persistent, understated endurance in the way the local architecture keeps its footing, with weathered wood and brick structures acting as quiet witnesses to generations of families who have worked this soil. In Beaverdam, the economy remains tethered to the land’s quiet productivity, favoring a measured pace that values the continuity of the season over the rapid turnover of the wider world.

About This Beaverdam Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Beaverdam, Virginia. Coordinates: 37.941251, -77.654433. 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 Beaverdam includes the ZIP code (23015), telephone area code (804), county seat of Hanover County (Hanover Courthouse), and school district assignment.

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.