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Montross Virginia Map

Explore Montross, 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 Montross, Virginia

How to Use This Montross, Virginia Map

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

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

Latitude	38.092416
Longitude	-76.815885
Population	333
Density	124.7 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	22520
Area Code	540
County Seat	Montross
School District	Westmoreland County Public Schools

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About Montross, Virginia

Montross is a locality in Westmoreland County, Virginia, United States. It is a small community with a population of 333. The population density is 124.7 people per km². Montross is located at 38.0924°N, 76.8159°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Montross is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 22520.

Montross rests upon the quiet, deliberate geography of the Virginia interior, where the land stretches out in a series of wooded plateaus and fertile clearings. It lies 37.3 miles east-southeast of Fredericksburg, VA (from Fredericksburg, VA: bearing 112°T), and is situated 17.1 miles southwest of Leonardtown. The air here holds a heavy, settled stillness, especially as the late afternoon light filters through the dense canopy of hardwoods, casting long, bruised shadows across the damp earth. A mile from the center, the dark, slow-moving waters of Nanny Sanford Swamp wind through the low-lying terrain, feeding the moisture into the soil of the nearby Porters Meadow. While the distant silhouette of the Blue Ridge Mountains occasionally haunts the western horizon on the clearest of days, the immediate landscape is defined by the intimate, shadowed hollows and the quietude of the surrounding timberland.

Montross carries the weight of a long, agrarian memory, its identity forged in the red clay and the quiet commerce of a county seat that has seen generations come and go without much fanfare. The local economy persists in the rhythm of small-scale enterprise and the maintenance of the land, supported by the proximity of Chandlers Millpond Public Fishing Lake, which provides a necessary, quiet anchor for the outdoors. Residents might find their way to the Turkey Neck Trail to traverse the quiet woods, observing the shift of seasons in the changing leaf color rather than the frantic pace of the outside world. There is a singular gravity to the way life moves here, a persistence of habit and history that keeps the focus fixed firmly on the immediate, tangible world of the fields and the slow, seasonal turn of the local harvest.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Chandlers Millpond Public Fishing Lake (State Recreation Area) — 1.3 mi, 296° NW
Stratford Hall (Conservation Area) — 3.4 mi, 348° N
Westmoreland State Park (State Park) — 4.3 mi, 336° NW
Rappahannock River Valley National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 4.8 mi, 213° SW · 24k acres
Hull Springs Farm (Recreation Easement) — 7.7 mi, 076° E
George Washington Birthplace National Monument (National Monument) — 8.5 mi, 325° NW · 556 acres
Newtowne Neck Sp (State Park) — 11.0 mi, 028° NE
Milestone in Radio History (Monument) — 11.8 mi, 351° N
Gardys Millpond Public Fishing Lake (State Recreation Area) — 12.6 mi, 120° SE
Lighthouse (Public Artwork) — 17.4 mi, 078° E
Drayden African-American Schoolhouse (Museum) — 18.9 mi, 073° E
Port Royal Museum of American History (Museum) — 21.2 mi, 285° W
Church Point (Viewpoint) — 21.6 mi, 072° E
The Maryland Dove (Museum) — 21.7 mi, 073° E
Historic St. Mary's City Visitors Center (Museum) — 21.9 mi, 074° E
Freedom of Conscience (Monument) — 21.9 mi, 072° E
Margaret Brent Pilgrimage (Monument) — 21.9 mi, 073° E
Garrett Farm site, John Wilkes Booth Killed after killing Lincoln (Attraction) — 22.6 mi, 279° W
Chotank Creek Natural Area Preserve (Marine Protected Area) — 24.0 mi, 322° NW
Caledon Natural Area (Marine Protected Area) — 24.2 mi, 314° NW
J.C. Lore Oyster House (Museum) — 25.1 mi, 050° NE
Smith's St. Leonard Site (Historic Ruins) — 26.5 mi, 039° NE
Indian Village (Historic Ruins) — 26.9 mi, 038° NE
Alexander Berger Memorial Sanctuary (Nature Reserve) — 32.1 mi, 289° W
Calvart Gallery (Gallery) — 33.1 mi, 022° N
Kocen Arts Center (Arts Centre) — 33.1 mi, 022° N
Creative Celebrations (Arts Centre) — 34.0 mi, 021° N
Blackwater National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 34.5 mi, 060° NE · 96k acres
Half Shell Stage (Theatre) — 35.3 mi, 138° SE
George Washington Memorial Parkway (National Park) — 44.8 mi, 344° N · 2,795 acres

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