Locust Grove Virginia Map

About Locust Grove, Virginia

Locust Grove is a locality in Chesterfield County, Virginia, United States. Locust Grove is located at 38.7090°N, 78.6483°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 22901, 22844, 22657.

Locust Grove unfolds across a landscape defined by the persistent, quiet movement of Timsbury Creek, which carves its path through the dense, verdant terrain. It lies 2.4 miles south of Chester, VA (from Chester, VA: bearing 169°T), and is situated 6.8 miles north-northwest of Petersburg. The air here holds the weight of the Piedmont, where the soil is thick with red clay and the horizon remains stubbornly flat, save for the faint, hazy suggestion of the Blue Ridge Mountains rising eighty-nine miles to the west. A mile from the center, the stillness of Rieves Lake offers a mirror to the sky, while the proximity of Harrowgate Park provides a quiet sanctuary of curated green space. Light in the late afternoon catches the tall grasses along the banks, casting long, amber shadows that seem to anchor the land in a perpetual, hushed waiting.

Locust Grove carries the quiet gravity of a place shaped by the passage of generations, where the modern economy finds its footing among the enduring echoes of a rural past. While Pocahontas State Forest stands eight miles away as a reminder of the wilder, unmanaged woods that once blanketed this region, the local rhythm is now dictated by the steady flow of commerce and the daily transit of those moving between the surrounding counties. Beyond the immediate reach of the nearby terrain—including the distant basin known as The Slash—the character of the locality is forged by a deliberate, measured pace of life. Residents move with the awareness that they inhabit a transition zone, where the intensity of regional development is tempered by the lingering, slow-moving influence of the earth itself.

About This Locust Grove Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Locust Grove, Virginia. Coordinates: 38.709005, -78.648349. 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 Locust Grove includes the ZIP code (22901, 22844, 22657), telephone area code (540), county seat of Chesterfield County (Chesterfield Court House), and school district assignment (Shenandoah 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.