Oilville Virginia Map

About Oilville, Virginia

Oilville is a locality in Goochland County, Virginia, United States. It is a small community with a population of 480. The population density is 12.0 people per km². Oilville is located at 37.7040°N, 77.7853°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 23129.

Oilville marks a quiet transition where the heavy clays of the Piedmont begin to yield to the subtle, persistent push of the inland woods. It lies 9.5 miles west of Wyndham, VA (from Wyndham, VA: bearing 272°T), and is situated 8.4 miles north-northwest of Manakin Sabot. Horsepen Creek carves a narrow, serpentine path through the low-lying thickets nearby, its waters often murky with the sediment of the surrounding fields. The air here holds a distinct, heavy stillness, especially as the light begins to fail and the shadows lengthen across the gravel shoulders of the backroads. In the distance, the faint, bruised outline of the Blue Ridge Mountains haunts the western horizon, a jagged reminder of the earth’s older, harder bones. Horseshoe Pond sits tucked away in the quietude of the brush two miles out, a stagnant mirror reflecting the dense canopy of oaks and pines that define the local timber.

Oilville exists as a byproduct of the steady, industrious pulse that flows between the older agricultural settlements and the encroaching reach of the modern transit corridors. The economy here has long been tethered to the movement of goods and the slow, rhythmic labor of maintaining the land, leaving behind the remnants of a rural past that predates the sleek, paved arteries of the current century. Not far from the main thoroughfares, the T. Brady Saunders Boy Scout Camp serves as a sprawling sanctuary of pine needles and silence, where the youth of the region learn the geometry of the wilderness. Life in Oilville moves with a deliberate, unadorned gravity, indifferent to the haste of the outside world, favoring the steady work of the day and the long, cooling shadows that settle over the fields when the sun finally retreats.

About This Oilville Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Oilville, Virginia. Coordinates: 37.704034, -77.785272. 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 Oilville includes the ZIP code (23129), telephone area code (804), county seat of Goochland County (Goochland), and school district assignment.

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.