Explore Crewe, 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 Crewe, 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 Crewe.
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 | Crewe |
| State | Virginia (VA) |
| County | Nottoway County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 37.180994 |
| Longitude | -78.130407 |
| Population | 2,262 |
| Density | 433.6 /km² |
| Incorporated | Yes |
| ZIP Code | 23930 |
| Area Code | 276 |
| County Seat | Nottoway |
| School District | Nottoway County Public Schools |
Crewe occupies a quiet expanse of the Piedmont landscape, where the land stretches into long, gentle swells of earth punctuated by the steady, unassuming presence of Winningham Creek. It lies 31.6 miles southwest of Brandermill, VA (from Brandermill, VA: bearing 236°T), and is situated 9.5 miles northwest of Blackstone. The air here holds the stillness of the deep interior, far from any salt-heavy wind, carrying instead the scent of pine needles and damp soil from the nearby Prince Edward State Forest. Sunlight filters through the canopy in thin, golden needles during the late afternoon, illuminating the way the shadows lengthen across the fields. To the west, the faint, hazy silhouette of the Blue Ridge Mountains marks the distant limit of the horizon, a reminder of the vast, solid ground that anchors this region. Within the center of the grid, Library Park offers a modest green reprieve, its quiet walkways reflecting the slow, deliberate pulse of the day.
Crewe emerged from the iron and steam of the railroad era, a history still etched into the wide, straight tracks that divide the landscape and define its spatial logic. The economy has long pivoted between the legacy of the rail yard and the modern demands of local commerce, maintaining a rhythm that prioritizes endurance over haste. Life here moves with the measured pace of a long-settled place, where the legacy of the past is not a museum piece but a layer in the foundation of daily routines. Six miles away, the waters of Hamilton Lake offer a reflective surface that captures the shifting colors of the sky, mirroring the quiet transition from the working hours to the encroaching dusk. The people of Crewe navigate these transitions with a polite reserve, moving through their days with the awareness that they are part of a continuous, unbroken sequence of local life.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Crewe, Virginia. Coordinates: 37.180994, -78.130407. 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 Crewe includes the ZIP code (23930), telephone area code (276), county seat of Nottoway County (Nottoway), and school district assignment (Nottoway 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. |