Gasburg Virginia Map

About Gasburg, Virginia

Gasburg is a locality in Brunswick County, Virginia, United States. It is a small community with a population of 408. The population density is 27.8 people per km². Gasburg is located at 36.5576°N, 77.8729°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 23857, 23887.

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.

About This Gasburg Map Page

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).

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.