Ivor Virginia Map

About Ivor, Virginia

Ivor is a locality in Southampton County, Virginia, United States. It is a small community with a population of 312. The population density is 110.5 people per km². Ivor is located at 36.9040°N, 76.8997°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Ivor is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 23866.

Ivor emerges from the flat, pine-shadowed plains of Virginia as a quiet intersection of open fields and darkening woodland. It lies 21.3 miles northwest of Suffolk, VA (from Suffolk, VA: bearing 305°T), and is situated 15.8 miles west-southwest of Smithfield. The landscape holds a heavy, humid stillness, where the low-slung horizon is broken only by the silhouettes of silos and the dense, swampy thickets of Seacock Swamp a mile to the east. Light here has a peculiar, syrupy quality during the late afternoon, thickening as it drifts over the fallow ground and catches the dust rising from secondary roads. To the west, the distant, hazy suggestion of Evelynton Heights barely brushes the sky, serving as a reminder of the rising country far beyond these lowland stretches. Four miles away, the dark, reflective waters of Freemans Millpond mirror the sky, offering a muted respite from the sun-baked intensity of the summer months.

Ivor maintains a tether to the earth through the industry of timber and the slow, deliberate turn of agricultural cycles. The influence of the Blackwater Sandhills State Natural Area Preserve keeps a portion of the surrounding terrain in a state of untamed, sandy scrub, preserving a wildness that contrasts with the orderly rows of crops nearby. Economic life flows through the heavy trucks hauling timber harvested from the periphery of Big Woods State Forest, a rhythmic commerce that has defined the character of the region for generations. Life moves at a pace set by the sun and the season, stripped of artifice, where the deep, loamy soil dictates the endurance of every structure and road. This is a place where the weight of history is felt not in monuments, but in the persistent, unyielding way the land reclaims the edges of every fence line and forgotten path.

About This Ivor Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Ivor, Virginia. Coordinates: 36.904039, -76.899682. 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 Ivor includes the ZIP code (23866), telephone area code (804), county seat of Southampton County (Courtland), and school district assignment (Southampton 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.