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East Lexington Virginia Map

Explore East Lexington, 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.

Interactive Map of East Lexington, Virginia

How to Use This East Lexington, Virginia Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for East Lexington, 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 East Lexington.

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	East Lexington
State	Virginia (VA)
County	Rockbridge County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	37.801471
Longitude	-79.416492
Population	1,824
Density	307.4 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	24450
Area Code	540
County Seat	Lexington
School District	Rockbridge County Public Schools

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About East Lexington, Virginia

East Lexington is a locality in Rockbridge County, Virginia, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,824. The population density is 307.4 people per km². East Lexington is located at 37.8015°N, 79.4165°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 24450.

East Lexington claims a quiet stretch of land where the Maury River carves a slow, deliberate path through the limestone-rich floor of the valley. It lies 26.9 miles southwest of Stuarts Draft, VA (from Stuarts Draft, VA: bearing 233°T), and is situated 1.1 miles east-northeast of Lexington. The air here holds a distinct, heavy clarity, especially as the afternoon sun slants across the open fields toward the distant, hazy blue silhouettes of the Blue Ridge Mountains. Residents find their footing in the varied topography, moving from the low-lying basin of Polecat Hollow up toward the parklands of Jordan's Point, where the terrain shifts from manicured green to the untamed thickets of the riparian edge. It is a landscape defined by this internal rhythm, a place where the water dictates the pace of the soil and the light lingers long against the limestone outcrops before fading into the gray of an inland dusk.

Economic life in East Lexington has long been tethered to the steady pulse of education and the regional commerce that flows through the valley, anchoring the population to a heritage of institutional stability and agricultural tradition. The proximity of Jordan's Point serves as a vital center for community gatherings, offering a shared space that bridges the gap between the academic influence of the nearby universities and the working rhythms of the surrounding countryside. While those seeking the spray of a waterfall might travel ten miles to Panther Falls or find stillness at Lake Robertson, the people of East Lexington remain rooted in the immediate, terrestrial character of their own valley floor. It is a location of deliberate persistence, where the weight of local history is felt not in grand monuments, but in the way the architecture respects the contours of the land and the way commerce cycles with the turning of the seasons.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Jordan's Point (Local Park) — 0.9 mi, 223° SW
Colonel Claudius Crozet (Monument) — 1.2 mi, 231° SW
Johnathan Daniels (Monument) — 1.2 mi, 234° SW
VMI World War II Memorial (Monument) — 1.3 mi, 233° SW
Virginia Military Institute Museum (Museum) — 1.3 mi, 233° SW
The Cannonball (Public Artwork) — 1.3 mi, 234° SW
Richardson Park (Local Park) — 1.4 mi, 217° SW
Gillis Theatre (Theatre) — 1.6 mi, 239° SW
The Cabell Gallery (Gallery) — 1.8 mi, 231° SW
Rockbridge Historical Society (Museum) — 1.8 mi, 229° SW
Nelson Gallery (Gallery) — 1.8 mi, 232° SW
Thomas Jonathan “Stonewall” Jackson (Attraction) — 2.1 mi, 228° SW
Glen Maury Park (Local Recreation) — 4.9 mi, 145° SE
George Washington National Forest (National Forest) — 5.3 mi, 116° SE · 1.1M acres
Knight Sports Arena (Stadium) — 5.5 mi, 139° SE
VOF Holding (State Recreation Area) — 6.9 mi, 291° W
Chimney Rock Mountain Overlook (Viewpoint) — 7.3 mi, 118° SE
Goshen and Little North Mountain Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 7.5 mi, 342° N
Short Hills Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 8.8 mi, 235° SW
Mount Pleasant National Scenic Area (National Scenic Byway) — 11.0 mi, 118° SE
Rich Hole Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 11.8 mi, 306° NW · 6,532 acres
Natural Bridge State Park (State Park) — 12.2 mi, 212° SW
Jefferson National Forest (National Forest) — 12.3 mi, 191° S · 733k acres
James River Face Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 12.4 mi, 187° S · 8,849 acres
Dinosaur Kingdom II (Attraction) — 12.6 mi, 210° SW
Yankee Horse Ridge (Attraction) — 12.9 mi, 088° E
Caverns at Natural Bridge (Attraction) — 13.3 mi, 211° SW
Old Mine Entrance (Historic Ruins) — 13.9 mi, 194° S
Camp Thunderbird (Historic Ruins) — 20.7 mi, 051° NE
Train Station and Caboose (Museum) — 24.8 mi, 133° SE

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