Explore Gloucester Courthouse, 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 Gloucester Courthouse, 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 Gloucester Courthouse.
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 | Gloucester Courthouse |
| State | Virginia (VA) |
| County | Gloucester County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 37.409863 |
| Longitude | -76.526617 |
| Population | 3,030 |
| Density | 167.8 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 23061 |
| Area Code | 804 |
| County Seat | Gloucester Courthouse |
| School District | Gloucester County Public Schools |
Gloucester Courthouse maintains a quiet stillness where the steady flow of Fox Mill Run defines the local topography, carving a path through the dense, verdant undergrowth of the interior plains. It lies 10.9 miles north of Gloucester Point, VA (from Gloucester Point, VA: bearing 351°T), and is situated 9.2 miles north of Hayes. The light here filters through heavy canopies of hardwood, casting long, bruised-purple shadows across the fields as the sun dips toward the horizon, far removed from the distant, hazy silhouette of Blackwalnut Ridge. Nearby, the water of Lee Pond holds the sky in a mirror of dark glass, undisturbed by the quickening pace of modern transit, while the grounds of Brown Park offer a sanctuary of tall grasses and native timber. The air carries a heavy, damp richness, smelling of upturned earth and the slow decay of autumn leaves that settle into the damp soil of the woodlands.
Gloucester Courthouse holds the weight of centuries in its brick-lined lanes and the austere architecture of its central district, where the permanence of the past dictates the rhythm of the current day. The economy remains tethered to the land and the patient labor of those who manage the surrounding timber and agriculture, grounding the local character in a tradition of steady, unadorned work. Walking past the older structures, one notices the deliberate, unhurried cadence of movement, a legacy of a place that values the slow accumulation of time over the sharp edges of industry. This is a locality defined by its inland solitude, where the history of the region is not merely a memory, but a tactile presence etched into the very mortar of the buildings and the quiet, persistent expansion of the forest floor.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Gloucester Courthouse, Virginia. Coordinates: 37.409863, -76.526617. 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 Gloucester Courthouse includes the ZIP code (23061), telephone area code (804), county seat of Gloucester County (Gloucester Courthouse), and school district assignment (Gloucester 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. |