Explore Spotsylvania, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Spotsylvania, 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 Spotsylvania.
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 | Spotsylvania |
| State | Virginia (VA) |
| County | Spotsylvania County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 38.200965 |
| Longitude | -77.589154 |
| Population | 480 |
| Density | 8.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 22553, 22551 |
| Area Code | 540 |
| County Seat | Spotsylvania Courthouse |
Spotsylvania emerges from the dense, verdant canopy of the Virginia Piedmont, where the land unfolds in a series of wooded ridges and quiet, clay-rich hollows. It lies 9.9 miles southwest of Fredericksburg, VA (from Fredericksburg, VA: bearing 225°T), and is situated 8.7 miles west-southwest of Massaponax. The morning light filters through the hardwood stands, casting long, amber shadows across the winding expanse of the Ni River, which snakes through the landscape with a sluggish, deliberate patience. To the west, the faint, jagged silhouette of the Blue Ridge Mountains marks the distant limit of the horizon, while the local terrain remains defined by the stillness of Grays Pond and the open, grassy expanses of the Spotsylvania Recreation Complex. The atmosphere carries the heavy, humid scent of damp earth and pine, a persistent reminder of the inland isolation that defines the regional character.
Spotsylvania bears the weight of a complex history, its soil having been marked by the tactical maneuvers of mid-nineteenth-century conflicts that transformed the quiet countryside into a theater of national consequence. While the scars of the past have long since faded into the quietude of the forest, the local economy has transitioned from agrarian roots toward a modern integration with the expanding professional corridors of the region. Residents traverse the Jackson Trail, tracing the paths once trod by soldiers, now maintained for the passage of hikers and local families. Life in Spotsylvania moves with a measured, deliberate pulse, far removed from the frantic pace of the urban centers to the north, finding its rhythm in the cyclical work of the schools and the quiet maintenance of the Bitzner Meadow basin, where the grass stiffens under the first true frost of the autumn season.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Spotsylvania, Virginia. Coordinates: 38.200965, -77.589154. 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 Spotsylvania includes the ZIP code (22553, 22551), telephone area code (540), county seat of Spotsylvania County (Spotsylvania Courthouse), and school district assignment.
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |