Palmyra Virginia Map

About Palmyra, Virginia

Palmyra is a locality in Suffolk (city), Virginia, United States. It is a small community with a population of 127. The population density is 34.7 people per km². Palmyra is located at 37.8664°N, 78.2576°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 23434, 22963.

Palmyra holds the quiet, terrestrial stillness of a landscape shaped by inland earth rather than the pull of the tides. It lies 2.2 miles north of Suffolk, VA (from Suffolk, VA: bearing 350°T), and is situated 9.1 miles east-southeast of Windsor. The terrain unfolds in a series of modest elevations that soften into woodland, where the light at dusk settles in thin, amber layers against the bark of hardwoods. To the east, the horizon is held by the faint, jagged silhouette of Smith Ridge, a distant boundary that dictates the weather and the slow cooling of the air. Nearby, the water of Lake Meade provides a glassy, motionless contrast to the surrounding fields, its surface reflecting the changing gray of the sky with a clarity that renders the trees along the bank into exact, inverted duplicates.

Palmyra maintains a rhythm defined by the proximity of the Nansemond River, which cuts a subtle, necessary path through the local topography. This waterway has long functioned as a silent witness to the area’s transition from agrarian roots to its modern, decentralized economy, where the pace is measured by the commute and the shift rather than the clock. Residents often gather near the Lake Meade Landing Tennis Complex, where the sounds of daily life are punctuated by the rhythmic strike of a ball against court surfaces. The history here is not written in grand monuments, but in the enduring patterns of land use and the persistent, quiet endurance of a settlement that favors the shade of the forest over the noise of the main thoroughfare.

About This Palmyra Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Palmyra, Virginia. Coordinates: 37.866371, -78.257592. 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 Palmyra includes the ZIP code (23434, 22963), telephone area code (757, 540), county seat of Suffolk (city), and school district assignment (Fluvanna 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.