Montross Virginia Map

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.

About This Montross Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Montross, Virginia. Coordinates: 38.092416, -76.815885. 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 Montross includes the ZIP code (22520), telephone area code (540), county seat of Westmoreland County (Montross), and school district assignment (Westmoreland 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.