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Great Falls Crossing Virginia Map

Explore Great Falls Crossing, 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 Great Falls Crossing, Virginia

How to Use This Great Falls Crossing, Virginia Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Great Falls Crossing, 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 Great Falls Crossing.

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	Great Falls Crossing
State	Virginia (VA)
County	Fairfax County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	38.980814
Longitude	-77.325579
Population	1,392
Density	901.8 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	20194
Area Code	571, 703
County Seat	Fairfax
School District	Fairfax County Public Schools

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About Great Falls Crossing, Virginia

Great Falls Crossing is a locality in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. It has a population of approximately 1,392. The population density is 901.8 people per km². Great Falls Crossing is located at 38.9808°N, 77.3256°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 20194.

Great Falls Crossing emerges from the verdant, rolling Piedmont where the serpentine path of Piney Run carves a quiet passage through the thick clay and tangled undergrowth. It lies 1.2 miles northeast of Reston, VA (from Reston, VA: bearing 45°T), and is situated 8.6 miles west-northwest of McLean. The landscape here favors a certain stillness, defined by the persistent, rhythmic flow of water and the dense, encroaching shadow of North Hills Park that wraps the immediate vicinity in a quiet, undisturbed green. To the west, the distant, hazy silhouette of the Blue Ridge Mountains marks the boundary of the horizon, a faint jagged line against the pale evening sky. Only a mile away, the surface of Lake Fairfax catches the bruised violet light of dusk, its stillness reflecting the transition from the bustling, structured development of the modern corridor to the deeper, older quietude of the surrounding woods.

Great Falls Crossing occupies a space where the heavy, humid silence of the colonial past lingers just beneath the veneer of a high-tech, modern economy. While the nearby Potomac Heritage Trail draws those who seek to trace the footsteps of early settlers through the thickets, the local rhythm is largely dictated by the steady pulse of the professional classes moving toward the urban centers of the interior. The land, once defined by the labor of the soil, now serves as a quiet buffer between the expansive, groomed developments and the untamed reaches of The Glade. There is a distinct, understated gravity to Great Falls Crossing, felt most acutely in the late afternoon when the low sun illuminates the fine dust rising from the quiet roads, casting a long, amber glow over a landscape that has traded the plow for the computer chip without ever quite shaking the weight of its own long, silent history.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Baron Cameron Park (Local Park) — 0.6 mi, 242° SW
Uplands Rec Area (Local Recreation) — 0.6 mi, 173° S
Uplands Pool (Local Recreation) — 0.7 mi, 184° S
Lake Fairfax Park (Local Park) — 0.9 mi, 159° S
Dennis Crook Memorial Bench (Monument) — 1.1 mi, 207° SW
Reston Museum (Museum) — 1.2 mi, 223° SW
1963 Tower (Viewpoint) — 1.2 mi, 223° SW
Robert E Simon (Monument) — 1.2 mi, 224° SW
ART studio/gallery (Public Artwork) — 1.2 mi, 223° SW
Pupatella Car (Attraction) — 2.1 mi, 194° S
LOOK Cinemas (Cinema) — 2.3 mi, 229° SW
NextStop Theatre (Theatre) — 3.1 mi, 238° SW
Dallas L Peck Memorial Auditorium (Theatre) — 3.2 mi, 225° SW
Mather Gorge marker (Monument) — 4.2 mi, 079° E
Wolf Trap National Park West Lot (Attraction) — 4.2 mi, 133° SE
AMC Worldgate 9 (Cinema) — 4.3 mi, 248° W
Maryland Mine (Attraction) — 5.1 mi, 079° E
Ox Road Ford Remnants (Historic Ruins) — 5.4 mi, 250° W
Mosby's Rock (Historic Ruins) — 5.5 mi, 243° SW
George Washington Memorial Parkway (National Park) — 5.8 mi, 097° E · 2,795 acres
Freeman House Historic Site (Attraction) — 6.3 mi, 149° SE
Kiln & Custard (Arts Centre) — 6.3 mi, 149° SE
Selfie Wrld (Museum) — 7.2 mi, 127° SE
Seneca Creek State Park (State Park) — 7.8 mi, 359° N
Elizabeth Hartwell Mason Neck National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 24.0 mi, 159° S · 2,944 acres
Patuxent Research Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 26.8 mi, 081° E · 26k acres

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