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Essex Virginia Map

Explore Essex, 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 Essex, Virginia

How to Use This Essex, Virginia Map

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

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

Latitude	37.967168
Longitude	-76.964306
Population	480
Density	8.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	22436, 22560
Area Code	540
County Seat	Tappahannock

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About Essex, Virginia

Essex is a locality in Essex County, Virginia, United States. It is a small community with a population of 480. The population density is 8.0 people per km². Essex is located at 37.9672°N, 76.9643°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 22436, 22560.

Essex exists as a landscape of quiet, agrarian persistence, defined by the slow, deliberate movement of Mount Landing Creek as it carves a path through the dense clay and loam of the interior. It lies 32.3 miles northeast of Atlee, VA (from Atlee, VA: bearing 48°T), and is situated 19.9 miles south of Colonial Beach. The horizon remains stubbornly flat, lacking the dramatic jaggedness of the Blue Ridge Mountains, which loom only as a faint, atmospheric suggestion far to the west. Sunlight in Essex takes on a thick, honeyed quality during the late afternoon, illuminating the heavy foliage of the surrounding woodlands and casting long, melancholic shadows across the fields. Only four miles away, the surface of Scotts Millpond remains glassy and undisturbed, acting as a dark mirror for the sky, while the nearby Rappahannock River Valley National Wildlife Refuge provides a vast, protected sanctuary where the land remains largely indifferent to the frantic pace of the modern world.

Agriculture has long served as the primary pulse of Essex, grounding its economy in the cyclical demands of the soil and the patient stewardship of timber and grain. The legacy of colonial settlements lingers here not as a museum piece, but as a persistent weight, manifesting in the enduring architecture and the hushed, polite cadence of daily interactions. While the nearby expanse of Porters Meadow offers a sense of open, expansive space, the local rhythm is dictated by the seasonal shift from the harsh, dormant gray of winter to the humid, teeming vitality of the growing months. Life in Essex moves with an unadorned directness, where the quietude of the countryside is occasionally broken by the rustle of wildlife or the distant machinery of a working farm, maintaining a character that values the steady accumulation of years over the fleeting intensity of rapid change.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Rappahannock River Valley National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 3.4 mi, 120° SE · 24k acres
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 6.3 mi, 114° SE
Chandlers Millpond Public Fishing Lake (State Recreation Area) — 11.0 mi, 035° NE
Westmoreland State Park (State Park) — 13.2 mi, 021° N
George Washington Birthplace National Monument (National Monument) — 15.1 mi, 009° N · 556 acres
Lands End Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 15.3 mi, 330° NW
Robert W. Duncan Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 15.9 mi, 253° W
Garrett Farm site, John Wilkes Booth Killed after killing Lincoln (Attraction) — 18.7 mi, 310° NW
Port Royal Museum of American History (Museum) — 18.7 mi, 318° NW
Milestone in Radio History (Monument) — 21.2 mi, 017° N
1864 Union Occupation of Bowling Green (Monument) — 21.6 mi, 286° W
Campaign of 1781 (Monument) — 21.6 mi, 286° W
Belle Isle State Park (State Park) — 22.7 mi, 124° SE
Bird Viewing Blind (Viewpoint) — 24.2 mi, 123° SE
Bel Air Mansion And Guest House (Museum) — 24.7 mi, 122° SE
Caledon Natural Area (Marine Protected Area) — 26.9 mi, 338° N
Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve - Virginia (Marine Protected Area) — 27.3 mi, 173° S
Lighthouse (Public Artwork) — 28.0 mi, 064° NE
Alexander Berger Memorial Sanctuary (Nature Reserve) — 29.4 mi, 311° NW
Drayden African-American Schoolhouse (Museum) — 29.7 mi, 062° NE
Mary Ball Washington Museum & Library (Museum) — 30.5 mi, 116° SE
Booker Taliaferro Washington School (historical) (Historic Ruins) — 30.6 mi, 109° E
Ashland Train Museum (Museum) — 31.0 mi, 243° SW
Flippo Gallery (Gallery) — 31.5 mi, 243° SW
Dominion Raceway (Attraction) — 31.6 mi, 292° W
Terror on the Farm (Attraction) — 31.9 mi, 256° W
Booger Woods (Attraction) — 32.3 mi, 256° W
Gaines Mill Battlefield (Registered Battlefield) — 32.5 mi, 214° SW
Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 45.5 mi, 058° NE · 96k acres
George Washington Memorial Parkway (National Park) — 51.9 mi, 355° N · 2,795 acres

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