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Horntown Virginia Map

Explore Horntown, 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 Horntown, Virginia

How to Use This Horntown, Virginia Map

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

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	Horntown
State	Virginia (VA)
County	Accomack County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	37.969567
Longitude	-75.463812
Population	912
Density	66.8 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	23395
Area Code	757
County Seat	Accomac
School District	Accomack County Public Schools

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About Horntown, Virginia

Horntown is a locality in Accomack County, Virginia, United States. It is a small community with a population of 912. The population density is 66.8 people per km². Horntown is located at 37.9696°N, 75.4638°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 23395.

Horntown occupies a flat expanse of the Virginia coastal plain, where the horizon remains wide and unencumbered by the shadow of Bailey Ridge, which looms only as a distant, phantom memory far to the west. It lies 13.1 miles south of Worcester, MD (from Worcester, MD: bearing 187°T), and is situated 9.3 miles southeast of Pocomoke City. The landscape is defined by a heavy, salt-sweetened air that drifts inland from Horntown Bay, two miles away, saturating the low-lying fields and the dark, brackish veins of Coldkall Creek. Moisture clings to the tall grasses and the edges of Wallops Pond, creating a shimmering, silver-gray haze during the early morning hours that softens the hard geometry of the fences and barns. Further out, the terrain yields to the protected stillness of the Wallops Island National Wildlife Refuge, where the earth seems to exhale in rhythm with the tides, and the distant, sandy rise of Ballast Tump marks the boundary where the solid ground finally surrenders to the Atlantic.

Horntown exists as a quiet intersection of agrarian tradition and the aerospace industry, a place where the antique labor of the soil continues alongside the modern, percussive pulse of scientific advancement. The local economy draws its character from this duality, shifting between the cycles of seasonal planting and the technical demands of the nearby launch facilities. History here is written not in grand monuments, but in the slow accumulation of generations who have navigated the thin barrier between the marshy flats and the open sky. Life in Horntown maintains a deliberate, measured pace, influenced by the expansive, open light that clarifies the details of the day, from the weathered texture of a farm gate to the sudden, sharp silhouette of a bird in flight over Doghead Flat.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Wallops Island National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 2.4 mi, 172° S · 1,092 acres
Chincoteague Bay Submerged Aquatic Vegetation Sanctuary (Marine Protected Area) — 3.3 mi, 068° E
Chesapeake Forest Lands (State Resource Management Area) — 3.8 mi, 021° N
Chincoteague Island Waterman's Memorial (Monument) — 5.7 mi, 147° SE
Crossing the Bar (Monument) — 5.7 mi, 147° SE
SS Marine Electric (Monument) — 5.7 mi, 147° SE
Assateague Island National Seashore (National Lakeshore) — 5.8 mi, 131° SE · 96k acres
Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 6.3 mi, 133° SE · 37k acres
Research Natural Area (Research Natural Area) — 6.6 mi, 130° SE
E.A. Vaughn Wma (State Conservation Area) — 6.9 mi, 034° NE
Lockheed T-33 (Attraction) — 8.1 mi, 326° NW
Chincoteague Proposed Wilderness Area (Wilderness Study Area) — 8.6 mi, 081° E · 2,020 acres
Pocomoke River Sf (State Resource Management Area) — 8.8 mi, 006° N
Pocomoke Fair Grounds (Theme Park) — 8.8 mi, 319° NW
Milburn Landing State Park (State Park) — 10.5 mi, 350° N
Pocomoke River Sp (State Park) — 10.5 mi, 350° N
Saxis Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 11.0 mi, 242° SW
Eastern Shore Railway Museum (Museum) — 16.4 mi, 219° SW
Nature Center (Museum) — 21.1 mi, 278° W
Sammy the Seagull (Public Artwork) — 27.1 mi, 344° N
Salisbury University Richard A. Henson School of Science & Technology Planetarium (Museum) — 27.1 mi, 343° N
Theatre and Web Development House (Theatre) — 27.3 mi, 343° N
The Mermaid Museum (Museum) — 27.9 mi, 028° NE
Louis H. Taylor Stadium (Stadium) — 29.6 mi, 030° NE
Naylor Mill Forest Trail (Attraction) — 31.4 mi, 347° N
Selfie Point (Viewpoint) — 32.0 mi, 040° NE
Freak Out (Attraction) — 32.1 mi, 039° NE
Speedway (Attraction) — 32.1 mi, 039° NE
Ripley's Believe It or Not Museum (Museum) — 32.2 mi, 039° NE
Military Exhib Site (Registered Battlefield) — 41.4 mi, 352° N

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