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Port Royal Virginia Map

Explore Port Royal, 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 Port Royal, Virginia

How to Use This Port Royal, Virginia Map

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

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	Port Royal
State	Virginia (VA)
County	Caroline County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	38.164886
Longitude	-77.199264
Population	196
Density	116.8 /km²
Incorporated	Yes
ZIP Code	22535
Area Code	540
County Seat	Bowling Green
School District	Caroline County Public Schools

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About Port Royal, Virginia

Port Royal is a locality in Caroline County, Virginia, United States. It is a small community with a population of 196. The population density is 116.8 people per km². Port Royal is located at 38.1649°N, 77.1993°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Port Royal is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 22535.

Port Royal occupies a quiet expanse of land where the Rappahannock River carves a slow, deliberate arc through the Virginia landscape. It lies 17.2 miles east-southeast of Fredericksburg, VA (from Fredericksburg, VA: bearing 122°T), and is situated 6.7 miles south of King George. The air here holds a heavy, earthen stillness, particularly as the low afternoon light slants across the fields, illuminating the dust motes that dance above the dry, cultivated soil. Inland by sixty-five miles, the horizon remains flat and expansive, though the distant silhouettes of the Blue Ridge Mountains occasionally sharpen against the evening sky when the humidity relents. A mile to the west, the surface of Gouldman Pond remains undisturbed, reflecting the dense canopy of hardwoods that characterize the Rappahannock River Valley National Wildlife Refuge, a preserve that anchors the region in a deliberate, wild silence.

Port Royal persists as a place where the weight of history is measured in the slow erosion of brick and the persistence of deep-rooted timber. Once a bustling center of commerce where tobacco barrels were rolled toward the riverbanks, the local economy has long since retreated into a modest, steady rhythm of agriculture and land stewardship. Travelers seeking the past might trace the nearby Wilderness Trail, a path that links the present to the movements of earlier centuries, while the nearby Owl Hollow offers a reminder of the subtle, ancient depressions in the earth that define this interior terrain. Life here moves with the deliberate pace of the Rappahannock River, unhurried by the frantic pulse of the technological corridors that lie further north, leaving the residents to cultivate a quiet, enduring sense of place among the pines and the alluvial silt.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Rappahannock River Valley National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 0.3 mi, 098° E · 24k acres
Port Royal Museum of American History (Museum) — 0.4 mi, 042° NE
Garrett Farm site, John Wilkes Booth Killed after killing Lincoln (Attraction) — 2.2 mi, 223° SW
Lands End Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 4.1 mi, 079° E
Pettigrew Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 4.3 mi, 294° NW
Voorhees (Conservation Area) — 7.7 mi, 092° E
Alexander Berger Memorial Sanctuary (Nature Reserve) — 11.0 mi, 300° NW
Caledon Natural Area (Marine Protected Area) — 11.1 mi, 008° N
Caledon State Park (State Park) — 11.1 mi, 008° N
Campaign of 1781 (Monument) — 11.3 mi, 226° SW
1864 Union Occupation of Bowling Green (Monument) — 11.3 mi, 226° SW
Chotank Creek Natural Area Preserve (Marine Protected Area) — 12.2 mi, 016° N
Stonewall Jackson Shrine (Monument) — 13.2 mi, 265° W
Boykin’s Landing (Viewpoint) — 14.4 mi, 332° NW
George Washington Birthplace National Monument (National Monument) — 14.5 mi, 081° E · 556 acres
Dominion Raceway (Attraction) — 16.6 mi, 264° W
Crow's Nest (State Wilderness) — 16.7 mi, 328° NW
George Washington Masonic Museum (Museum) — 17.0 mi, 304° NW
National Bank Museum (Museum) — 17.1 mi, 304° NW
Fredericksburg and Spot. National Military Park (National Park) — 17.1 mi, 302° NW · 48 acres
Westmoreland State Park (State Park) — 17.2 mi, 088° E
Klein Theatre (Theatre) — 17.9 mi, 303° NW
Stafford County Museum (Museum) — 18.3 mi, 307° NW
Wine & Design (Public Artwork) — 18.3 mi, 307° NW
Daniel Bridge (Historic Ruins) — 19.4 mi, 325° NW
Chiles Homesite (Historic Ruins) — 19.4 mi, 351° N
McLaw's Line (Registered Battlefield) — 24.5 mi, 292° W
Slocum's Line (Registered Battlefield) — 25.7 mi, 292° W
Terror on the Farm (Attraction) — 28.1 mi, 220° SW
George Washington Memorial Parkway (National Park) — 39.0 mi, 012° N · 2,795 acres

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