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Oilville Virginia Map

Explore Oilville, 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 Oilville, Virginia

How to Use This Oilville, Virginia Map

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

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

Latitude	37.704034
Longitude	-77.785272
Population	480
Density	12.0 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	23129
Area Code	804
County Seat	Goochland

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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.

Nearby Outdoor Places

T. Brady Saunders Boy Scout Camp (Conservation Area) — 4.2 mi, 245° SW
Hidden Rock Park (Local Park) — 4.6 mi, 268° W
Hill Family Flag Plaza (Monument) — 4.7 mi, 246° SW
The Sysonby Eagle (Monument) — 4.7 mi, 245° SW
Dover Mill (Historic Ruins) — 5.3 mi, 170° S
Goochland County Historical Society (Museum) — 5.7 mi, 254° W
Powhatan State Park (State Park) — 6.9 mi, 258° W
Tuckahoe Creek Park (Local Park) — 8.3 mi, 120° SE
Saint Benedict (Public Artwork) — 10.4 mi, 145° SE
HATtheatre (Theatre) — 11.4 mi, 129° SE
RED VEIN Haunt (Theme Park) — 11.5 mi, 077° E
Grandview Dog Pens (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 13.4 mi, 266° W
Tin Pan (Arts Centre) — 13.6 mi, 120° SE
Powhatan Ponds Public Fishing Lake (State Recreation Area) — 13.8 mi, 232° SW
Powhatan Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 13.8 mi, 223° SW
Poor Farm Amphitheater (Theatre) — 14.3 mi, 068° E
Highest Point In Henrico County (Viewpoint) — 14.3 mi, 123° SE
Philip Spencer Hancock Monument (Monument) — 15.6 mi, 151° SE
Laurel Gallery (Gallery) — 15.7 mi, 105° E
Lora Robins Gallery of Design from Nature (Gallery) — 16.1 mi, 123° SE
Booger Woods (Attraction) — 17.0 mi, 052° NE
Amelia Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 17.0 mi, 202° S
McCools of Bon Air (Gallery) — 17.0 mi, 134° SE
Terror on the Farm (Attraction) — 17.3 mi, 053° NE
Lake Amelia Public Fishing Lake (State Recreation Area) — 17.7 mi, 205° SW
Ashland Train Museum (Museum) — 17.7 mi, 077° E
Pocahontas State Park (State Park) — 23.4 mi, 153° SE
Chimborazo Park (National Park) — 23.7 mi, 121° SE · 43 acres
Presquile National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 36.4 mi, 129° SE · 2,590 acres
Shenandoah National Park (National Park) — 59.3 mi, 327° NW · 197k acres

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