Westmoreland County, Virginia Map
Explore Westmoreland County, Virginia with this interactive street and satellite map. Browse all 7 cities and towns in Westmoreland County below.
Interactive Map of Westmoreland County, Virginia
| County | Westmoreland |
| State | Virginia (VA) |
| County Seat | Montross |
| Country | United States of America |
| Latitude | 38.117974 |
| Longitude | -76.732925 |
| Cities & Towns | 7 |
| Area Codes | 540 |
About Westmoreland County, Virginia
Westmoreland County occupies a narrow, finger-like peninsula defined by the salt-heavy breath of the Potomac and Rappahannock rivers. Its terrain is a low, flat expanse of maritime forest and tidewater marsh, where the earth is often dark, damp, and heavy with the silt of ancient floods. The climate here is moderated by the vast, gray-blue expanses of the surrounding estuaries, which trap the humidity of summer and hold the chill of winter in a lingering, damp embrace. As the sun dips toward the horizon, the light catches the reeds along the brackish banks, turning the water into a sheet of hammered copper that seems to hold the day’s heat long after the air has cooled.
English settlers arrived here in the seventeenth century, carving the wilderness into vast tobacco plantations that relied upon the deep-water access provided by the river inlets. The county was formally established to organize these sprawling, isolated holdings into a cohesive governance, eventually centering its administrative life in a small village where the courthouse remains the architectural anchor of civic identity. This landscape fostered a landed gentry whose political influence reached far beyond the county lines, shaping the early trajectory of the nation through the sheer force of local ambition. The silence of these older fields, where the soil is still turned by the plow, suggests a long memory of labor and the persistent weight of the past pressing against the present day.
Westmoreland County sustains itself through a quiet reliance on the seasonal yields of the water and the field, moving in accordance with the harvest and the tide. Men and women here work the oyster beds or oversee the spread of grain crops, maintaining an economy that remains tethered to the natural rhythms of the tidewater. Landmarks of brick and white-painted timber stand as austere reminders of a colonial era, their proportions dictated by a need for balance and endurance against the corrosive salt air. Life here carries a distinct, unhurried cadence, marked by the steady movement of trucks along two-lane roads and the way the fog clings to the low-lying fields at dawn, softening the edges of the horizon until the world feels both intimate and vast.
Cities and Towns in Westmoreland County
About This Westmoreland County Map Page
This page provides an interactive map of Westmoreland County, Virginia alongside links to detailed street maps for 7 cities and towns. The county seat is Montross. Each city and town map page includes live weather, local news and precise GPS coordinates.
The Search Maps button below the county map opens USGS topographic maps and aerial imagery as base layers, with a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a single-fix GPS readout giving your USNG grid reference and latitude and longitude.
Location data is sourced from the USGS GNIS database and verified by coordinates, not name matching alone.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | USGS GNIS database; coordinates matched to 2020 US Census records |
