Explore Lakeside, 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 Lakeside, 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 Lakeside.
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 | Lakeside |
| State | Virginia (VA) |
| County | Newport News (city) |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 37.613092 |
| Longitude | -77.477111 |
| Population | 12,203 |
| Density | 1089.6 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 23606, 23228 |
| Area Code | 757, 804 |
| School District | Henrico County Public Schools |
Lakeside claims the quiet intersection of suburban expansion and the damp, earth-rich soil typical of the Virginia interior. It lies 5.0 miles south-southwest of Tabb, VA (from Tabb, VA: bearing 202°T), and is situated 6.4 miles north-northwest of Newport News. Waters Creek cuts a deliberate path through the landscape, its slow current carving through the clay banks that define the local topography. At the center of the neighborhood, the still surface of Lake Maury acts as a mirror for the shifting clouds, grounding the geography in a stillness that persists even as the modern world pushes against its edges. In the distance, the faint, hazy silhouette of Blackwalnut Ridge offers a silent anchor to the horizon, providing a permanent reference point for those who measure their days by the quality of the light filtering through the trees in Boulevard Park.
Lakeside functions as a steady, quiet hinge between the legacy of earlier agricultural land use and the pragmatic requirements of a contemporary workforce. While the shadow of the distant Hampton Flats suggests a wider, more open basin, the immediate economy remains tied to the local service and administrative sectors that sustain the families who have made their homes here for generations. The atmosphere carries the weight of a long-settled region, where the pace is dictated by the predictable cycle of school terms and the seasonal maintenance of green spaces. Here, the hum of daily life is seldom interrupted, leaving residents to navigate a routine that honors the deliberate, unhurried persistence of the land itself.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Lakeside, Virginia. Coordinates: 37.613092, -77.477111. 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 Lakeside includes the ZIP code (23606, 23228), telephone area code (757, 804), county seat of Newport News (city), and school district assignment (Henrico 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. |