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Palmyra Virginia Map

Explore Palmyra, 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 Palmyra, Virginia

How to Use This Palmyra, Virginia Map

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

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	Palmyra
State	Virginia (VA)
County	Suffolk (city)
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	37.866371
Longitude	-78.257592
Population	127
Density	34.7 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	23434, 22963
Area Code	757, 540
School District	Fluvanna County Public Schools

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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.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Pleasant Grove Park (Local Park) — 0.6 mi, 252° W
Costello Stadium (Stadium) — 2.9 mi, 199° S
Fluvanna Ruritan Lake Public Fishing Lake (State Recreation Area) — 6.5 mi, 286° W
Scheier Natural Area (Conservation Area) — 6.8 mi, 254° W
Hardware River Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 11.0 mi, 228° SW
Goochland Marsh State Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 11.6 mi, 127° SE
James Monroe (Public Artwork) — 13.4 mi, 307° NW
Ash Lawn - Highland (Monument) — 13.5 mi, 307° NW
Carter Overlook (Viewpoint) — 15.1 mi, 309° NW
Charlottesville Woolen Mills (Monument) — 15.3 mi, 315° NW
Biscuit Run State Park (State Park) — 15.7 mi, 301° NW
DMR Adventures (Arts Centre) — 15.9 mi, 313° NW
Belmont Arts Collaborative (Arts Centre) — 15.9 mi, 313° NW
Free Speech Wall (Attraction) — 16.5 mi, 313° NW
Arts of the Albemarle (Gallery) — 16.5 mi, 313° NW
Second Street Gallery (Gallery) — 16.6 mi, 313° NW
Live Arts Theatre (Theatre) — 16.6 mi, 313° NW
The Jefferson Theatre (Theatre) — 16.6 mi, 313° NW
Jefferson School African American Heritage Center (Museum) — 16.9 mi, 312° NW
Grandview Dog Pens (Zoo / Wildlife Park) — 17.4 mi, 135° SE
University of Virginia Historic Marker (Monument) — 17.9 mi, 311° NW
Lambeth Ruins (Historic Ruins) — 18.1 mi, 311° NW
Powhatan State Park (State Park) — 21.4 mi, 128° SE
Goochland County Historical Society (Museum) — 24.0 mi, 122° SE
Dover Mill (Historic Ruins) — 31.4 mi, 122° SE
Shenandoah Wilderness Area (Wilderness Area) — 32.9 mi, 305° NW · 82k acres
Shenandoah National Park (National Park) — 33.3 mi, 314° NW · 197k acres
Appalachian National Scenic Trail (National Trail) — 33.4 mi, 331° NW · 110k acres
George Washington National Forest (National Forest) — 36.0 mi, 286° W · 1.1M acres
Three Ridges Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 38.4 mi, 270° W · 4,607 acres

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