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Love Virginia Map

Explore Love, 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 Love, Virginia

How to Use This Love, Virginia Map

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

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

Latitude	37.885416
Longitude	-79.010025
Population	480
Density	8.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	22952, 22949
Area Code	540
County Seat	Staunton

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About Love, Virginia

Love is a locality in Augusta County, Virginia, United States. It is a small community with a population of 480. The population density is 8.0 people per km². Love is located at 37.8854°N, 79.0100°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 22952, 22949.

Love occupies a high, quiet plateau where the air holds the persistent cool of the higher elevations and the earth is composed of ancient, stubborn shale. It lies 10.1 miles south of Stuarts Draft, VA (from Stuarts Draft, VA: bearing 173°T), and is situated 18.6 miles south of Staunton. Sunlight here has a way of bleaching the color from the midday sky, leaving a pale, expansive dome that presses down upon the canopy of the George Washington National Forest. Only a mile away, the dark, rhythmic pulse of Campbell Creek cuts through the terrain, while the deeper descent into Pond Hollow offers a sheltered basin where the mist lingers long after the morning sun has claimed the ridges. To the west, the distant, hazy silhouette of the Blue Ridge Mountains serves as a permanent sentinel, defining the horizon with a jagged, bruised-purple line that shifts in clarity with the coming of the evening shadows.

Love exists as a remnant of a time when the pace of life was dictated by the turning of the seasons rather than the demands of the modern thoroughfare. The economy remains tethered to the land and the nearby timberlands of Lesesne State Forest, where the silence is broken only by the occasional labor of those who know the woods intimately. Travelers passing through often pause to seek the solitude of the White Rock Gap Trail, finding a rare stillness that is absent from the frantic lowlands. Beyond the local woodlots, the quiet waters of Green Pond reflect the changing foliage, marking the passage of autumn with a stillness that feels like a shared, unspoken secret among those who choose to remain in this isolated, rugged corner of the world.

Nearby Outdoor Places

George Washington National Forest (National Forest) — 0.2 mi, 145° SE · 1.1M acres
Three Ridges Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 0.2 mi, 147° SE · 4,607 acres
Appalachian National Scenic Trail (National Trail) — 0.9 mi, 071° E · 110k acres
The Priest Overlook (Viewpoint) — 1.3 mi, 290° W
George Washington and Jefferson National Forest (National Forest) — 2.5 mi, 269° W · 865 acres
Wintergreen Tract (Conservation Area) — 2.5 mi, 049° NE
Big Levels National Game Refuge (National Conservation Area) — 2.7 mi, 343° N · 12k acres
Priest Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 2.7 mi, 218° SW · 5,994 acres
Lesesne State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 3.1 mi, 147° SE
Ridgely's Fun Park (Theme Park) — 4.4 mi, 060° NE
Crabtree Falls (Attraction) — 4.5 mi, 238° SW
Crawford's Knob State Natural Area Preserve (Conservation Area) — 6.0 mi, 064° NE
Rockfish Valley Foundation Natural History Center (Museum) — 6.1 mi, 090° E
Lyndhurst Ponds (State Conservation Area) — 7.6 mi, 015° N
Camp Thunderbird (Historic Ruins) — 9.3 mi, 320° NW
Earl Hamner Theater (Theatre) — 9.5 mi, 074° E
Yankee Horse Ridge (Attraction) — 10.6 mi, 240° SW
Virginia Distillery Museum (Museum) — 10.7 mi, 132° SE
Mount Pleasant National Scenic Area (National Scenic Byway) — 11.7 mi, 217° SW
Shenandoah National Park (National Park) — 13.1 mi, 039° NE · 197k acres
Lisa Geiman Studio & Shop (Gallery) — 14.4 mi, 015° N
VDOT Workers' Memorial (Monument) — 16.2 mi, 047° NE
Mirador (Monument) — 16.9 mi, 053° NE
Flower Pots (Public Artwork) — 18.3 mi, 350° N
MBU at the Wharf (Arts Centre) — 18.5 mi, 349° N
Staunton Augusta Art Center (Arts Centre) — 18.5 mi, 350° N
Historic Staunton Foundation (Museum) — 18.5 mi, 350° N
Augusta County Historical Society (Museum) — 18.5 mi, 350° N
CoArt Gallery (Gallery) — 18.6 mi, 349° N
Staunton Performing Arts Center (Theatre) — 18.6 mi, 350° N

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