Explore Gasburg, 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 Gasburg, 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 Gasburg.
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 | Gasburg |
| State | Virginia (VA) |
| County | Brunswick County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 36.557604 |
| Longitude | -77.872928 |
| Population | 408 |
| Density | 27.8 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 23857, 23887 |
| Area Code | 804 |
| County Seat | Lawrenceville |
| School District | Brunswick County Public Schools |
Gasburg exists as a quiet confluence of red clay and dense woodland where the Cold Spring Branch carves a narrow, persistent path through the undergrowth. It lies 15.3 miles west-northwest of Roanoke Rapids, NC (from Roanoke Rapids, NC: bearing 299°T), and is situated 17.0 miles southeast of South Hill. The land here holds a temperate, inland stillness, far removed from any maritime influence, defined instead by the heavy, humid air of the Piedmont. Sunlight filters through the canopy in thin, slanted shafts, illuminating the quiet passage of the creek as it winds toward the nearby expanse of Lake Gaston. The horizon remains unbroken by the jagged silhouettes of the distant Appalachian Mountains, leaving the sky to hang vast and heavy over fields that have long surrendered their rows of tobacco to the encroaching thickets of pine and oak.
Gasburg retains the residual gravity of a rural past, where the economy once leaned heavily on the agrarian rhythms of the soil and the labor of the harvest. Though the reach of modern commerce has thinned the old ways, a sense of deliberate pace persists, anchored by the proximity of the Tar River Land Conservancy Preserve, which guards the integrity of the local ecosystem seven miles away. The character of the land is shaped by these quiet shifts in land use, where the former industry of the field has given way to the slow, natural reclamation of the forest. Life here moves with a steady, unadorned gravity, colored by the seasonal turn of the leaves and the persistent, low-frequency hum of a region that measures its history in the quiet accumulation of days.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Gasburg, Virginia. Coordinates: 36.557604, -77.872928. 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 Gasburg includes the ZIP code (23857, 23887), telephone area code (804), county seat of Brunswick County (Lawrenceville), and school district assignment (Brunswick 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. |