Riverdale Virginia Map

About Riverdale, Virginia

Riverdale is a locality in Southampton County, Virginia, United States. It is a small community with a population of 949. The population density is 45.1 people per km². Riverdale is located at 36.6748°N, 78.8940°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 24014, 23324, 23851.

Riverdale emerges from the quiet, red-clay expanse of the interior plains, where the horizon is defined by the steady, low-slung presence of Chestnut Ridge rising eleven miles to the west. It lies 24.2 miles west-southwest of Suffolk, VA (from Suffolk, VA: bearing 240°T), and is situated 9.0 miles south-southwest of Franklin. Sunlight here possesses a heavy, amber quality that clings to the late-afternoon fields, highlighting the way Buckhorn Creek carves a narrow, shadowed path through the undergrowth just a mile from the center of town. Beyond the immediate reach of the main roads, the land opens into dense, silent patches of hardwood that filter the wind, while the moisture from Windbourne Mill Pond, three miles distant, keeps the evening air cool and smelling faintly of turned earth and damp pine.

Riverdale retains a stubborn attachment to the labor of the soil, a remnant of a time when tobacco and timber dictated the pace of every season. The local economy now balances these older rhythms against the encroaching demands of modern infrastructure, though the shift is measured in decades rather than years. Visitors often find themselves drawn to the quiet perimeter of General Vaughns Bridge Wildlife Management Area, where the silence is broken only by the sudden strike of a hawk or the rustle of deer through the brush. Life in Riverdale follows the slow, deliberate pulse of a place that understands its own boundaries, valuing the continuity of the landscape over the frantic speed of the world beyond its borders.

About This Riverdale Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Riverdale, Virginia. Coordinates: 36.674848, -78.894011. 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 Riverdale includes the ZIP code (24014, 23324, 23851), telephone area code (804, 276), county seat of Southampton County (Courtland), and school district assignment (Halifax 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.