Explore Lunenburg, 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 Lunenburg, 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 Lunenburg.
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 | Lunenburg |
| State | Virginia (VA) |
| County | Lunenburg County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 36.960984 |
| Longitude | -78.265552 |
| Population | 142 |
| Density | 25.7 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 23952, 23947 |
| Area Code | 276 |
| County Seat | Lunenburg |
| School District | Lunenburg County Public Schools |
Lunenburg displays a landscape defined by the quiet persistence of the Virginia Piedmont, where vast tracts of forest and open farmland stretch toward a horizon that hints at the distant Blue Ridge Mountains. It lies 47.0 miles southwest of Brandermill, VA (from Brandermill, VA: bearing 226°T), and is situated 17.9 miles north-northwest of South Hill. The earth here is heavy with red clay, absorbing the afternoon heat and holding it long after the sun dips behind the treeline of the nearby Gallion State Forest. Moisture collects in the low-lying hollows near Couches Creek, where the air grows cool and dense with the scent of damp moss and pine. When the light fades, the sky over Lunenburg turns a bruised, singular violet, casting a stillness over the fields that makes the movement of a single hawk seem like a momentous event.
Agriculture has long dictated the tempo of existence in Lunenburg, a legacy etched into the soil by generations who worked the tobacco fields under a grueling sun. While the economy has shifted away from the intensive labor of the past, the rhythm of the seasons remains the primary clock for those who live here. Residents often venture toward Nottoway Falls Park for a moment of reprieve, or look toward the quiet expanse of the Lunenburg Beach Reservoir for the stillness that only inland waters provide. The character of the place is built upon a deliberate restraint, a preference for the steady, unadorned labor of maintaining a homestead over the hurried pace of the modern corridor. It is a place where the weight of the past is not a burden, but a steadying influence on the quiet, methodical work of the present day.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Lunenburg, Virginia. Coordinates: 36.960984, -78.265552. 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 Lunenburg includes the ZIP code (23952, 23947), telephone area code (276), county seat of Lunenburg County (Lunenburg), and school district assignment (Lunenburg 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. |