Port Royal Virginia Map

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.

About This Port Royal Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Port Royal, Virginia. Coordinates: 38.164886, -77.199264. 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 Port Royal includes the ZIP code (22535), telephone area code (540), county seat of Caroline County (Bowling Green), and school district assignment (Caroline 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.