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Gwynns Island Virginia Map

Explore Gwynns Island, 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 Gwynns Island, Virginia

How to Use This Gwynns Island, Virginia Map

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

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

Latitude	37.500095
Longitude	-76.285563
Population	480
Density	18.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	23066
Area Code	804
County Seat	Mathews

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About Gwynns Island, Virginia

Gwynns Island is a locality in Mathews County, Virginia, United States. It is a small community with a population of 480. The population density is 18.0 people per km². Gwynns Island is located at 37.5001°N, 76.2856°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 23066.

Gwynns Island emerges from the flat, marsh-fringed edges of the coast as a low-slung expanse of land defined by the brackish breath of the surrounding tides. It lies 20.6 miles northeast of Gloucester Point, VA (from Gloucester Point, VA: bearing 34°T), and is situated 14.6 miles east-northeast of Gloucester Courthouse. The air here holds a permanent, saline weight, clinging to the weathered wood of piers and the salt-crusted hulls of skiffs that bob rhythmically upon the waters of the Middle Grounds. To the west, the landscape yields to the quiet, meandering progress of Lanes Creek, where the water darkens against the silt and grasses, reflecting a sky that often turns the color of a bruised plum at dusk. Far to the west, the faint, jagged silhouette of Blackwalnut Ridge might occasionally haunt the horizon, though the immediate world remains dominated by the expansive, shifting horizons of the bay and the low, flat horizons that define the local topography.

Gwynns Island has long maintained a character forged by the harvest of these shallow, nutrient-rich waters, where the economy remains tethered to the patient cycles of the crabbing and oystering trades. The rhythms of life here are dictated not by the clock, but by the turning of the tide and the seasonal migrations of the catch, a continuity that persists despite the encroaching modern world. Residents often look toward the distant Middle Peninsula Chesapeake Bay Public Access Authority Holding for a glimpse of the region’s preserved natural state, a stark contrast to the small, private docks that serve as the island’s true thoroughfares. Far from the deep inland basins like Ships Hole or the freshwater stillness of Conrad Pond, the people here exist in a fragile, intimate proximity to the sea, where the history of the watermen is written in the peeling paint of boathouses and the steady, unpretentious industry that continues to define the island’s isolated, maritime soul.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Mathews Historical Museum (Museum) — 4.9 mi, 203° SW
Mathews County Confederate Monument (Monument) — 5.0 mi, 203° SW
Bethel Beach Natural Area Preserve (Marine Protected Area) — 6.2 mi, 165° S
Bethel Beach State Natural Area Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 6.2 mi, 165° S
Lively Hunt Club (Local Park) — 9.1 mi, 336° NW
Beaverdam Park (Local Park) — 13.4 mi, 256° W
Half Shell Stage (Theatre) — 15.7 mi, 341° N
Hughlett Point State Natural Area Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 15.9 mi, 356° N
Machicomoco State Park (State Park) — 18.9 mi, 226° SW
Chesapeake Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve - Virginia (Marine Protected Area) — 19.3 mi, 196° S
Rosewell Plantation (Historic Ruins) — 19.9 mi, 233° SW
Captain John Smith Chesapeake National Historic Trail (National Trail) — 20.2 mi, 253° W · 526 acres
Werowocomoco (Historic Ruins) — 20.9 mi, 253° W
Mary Ball Washington Museum & Library (Museum) — 21.0 mi, 332° NW
At Altitude Gallery (Gallery) — 21.8 mi, 138° SE
Historic Palace Theatre (Theatre) — 21.8 mi, 137° SE
Cornwallis' Cave (Attraction) — 21.9 mi, 213° SW
Fusiliers Redoubt (Registered Battlefield) — 22.0 mi, 215° SW
Redoubt 10 (Registered Battlefield) — 22.0 mi, 212° SW
GM3 Matthews Memorial (Monument) — 22.1 mi, 209° SW
Unit Commissioning Memorabilia (Monument) — 22.1 mi, 209° SW
Aids to Navigation Museum (Museum) — 22.2 mi, 209° SW
Plum Tree Island National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 23.0 mi, 187° S · 9,195 acres
York River State Park (State Park) — 23.2 mi, 251° W
Reedville Fishermen's Museum (Museum) — 23.7 mi, 001° N
Bel Air Mansion And Guest House (Museum) — 25.0 mi, 320° NW
Meltdown (Attraction) — 25.2 mi, 229° SW
Big Daddy Falls (Attraction) — 25.3 mi, 230° SW
Rappahannock River Valley National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 29.8 mi, 320° NW · 24k acres
Assateague Island National Seashore (National Lakeshore) — 53.6 mi, 062° NE · 96k acres

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