Explore New Church, 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 New Church, 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 New Church.
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 | New Church |
| State | Virginia (VA) |
| County | Accomack County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 37.979012 |
| Longitude | -75.531036 |
| Population | 256 |
| Density | 52.2 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Code | 23415 |
| Area Code | 757 |
| County Seat | Accomac |
| School District | Accomack County Public Schools |
New Church occupies a flat expanse of the Virginia coastal plain, where the horizon pulls tight against the earth and the air holds a persistent, salt-heavy dampness. It lies 13.5 miles south-southwest of Worcester, MD (from Worcester, MD: bearing 203°T), and is situated 7.0 miles south-southeast of Pocomoke City. The landscape is defined by a low, expansive sky that flattens the fields and turns the light at dusk into a bruised, pale violet. Only a mile away, the dark, slow-moving waters of Hancock Branch cut through the scrub, carving a path toward the distant salt marshes. Further east, the tides of Horntown Bay exert a quiet gravitational pull on the temperament of the land, while the dense, pine-shadowed reaches of Chesapeake Forest Lands provide a buffer of wilder green to the west. The soil is dark and friable, a testament to the ancient sediment that defines this reach of the Atlantic seaboard.
New Church functions as a quiet hinge between the heavy agricultural traditions of the past and the sparse, utilitarian rhythm of modern commerce. The local economy remains tethered to the land and the nearby waterways, where the seasonal work of harvesting and transport dictates the pace of the day. Decades of colonial memory linger in the architecture of the older buildings, though the focus has shifted toward the steady, unadorned labor of those who manage the surrounding tracts. The presence of the nearby Chesapeake Forest Lands keeps the encroaching sprawl at bay, preserving a silence that is broken only by the wind moving through the pines or the occasional passage of a truck on the main road. Life here does not seek to be observed, existing instead in the steady, rhythmic repetition of chores and the long, patient waiting for the weather to turn.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of New Church, Virginia. Coordinates: 37.979012, -75.531036. 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 New Church includes the ZIP code (23415), telephone area code (757), county seat of Accomack County (Accomac), and school district assignment (Accomack 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. |