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Willis Wharf Virginia Map

Explore Willis Wharf, 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 Willis Wharf, Virginia

How to Use This Willis Wharf, Virginia Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Willis Wharf, 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 Willis Wharf.

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	Willis Wharf
State	Virginia (VA)
County	Northampton County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	37.51569
Longitude	-75.806596
Population	210
Density	165.1 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	23486
Area Code	757
County Seat	Eastville
School District	Northampton County Public Schools

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About Willis Wharf, Virginia

Willis Wharf is a locality in Northampton County, Virginia, United States. It is a small community with a population of 210. The population density is 165.1 people per km². Willis Wharf is located at 37.5157°N, 75.8066°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 23486.

Willis Wharf occupies a singular edge of the world where the salt-heavy air of the Atlantic meets the quiet, brackish veins of the Eastern Shore. It lies 40.2 miles northeast of Poquoson, VA (from Poquoson, VA: bearing 47°T), and is situated 32.4 miles south of Crisfield. Parting Creek carves a dark, serpentine path through the marshland, its tidal currents pulling at the pilings and mudflats with a rhythmic, inexorable gravity. Beyond the immediate reach of the grass, the horizon is flattened by the vast, open sky, though the faint, jagged silhouette of Ames Ridge lingers miles to the west like a memory of higher ground. The light here at dusk possesses a bruised, pearlescent quality, turning the water of the nearby Wescott Cove into a sheet of hammered pewter that reflects the slow, steady transformation of the day into the long, dark quiet of the coast.

Willis Wharf has long defined itself by the harvest of the sound, a place where the economy is written in the grit of shells and the seasonal migration of the catch. Generations have looked to the water for their livelihood, sustaining a heritage of aquaculture that remains the pulse of the docks even as the world beyond shifts its gears. Farther inland, the landscape softens into the quiet expanse of Brownsville Farm, where the stillness of the fields offers a stark contrast to the industrious, brine-scented labor of the wharfside. Life in Willis Wharf moves according to the turning of the tides rather than the ticking of a clock, a deliberate pace inherited from those who learned to read the weather in the color of the gulls and the subtle, shifting temperament of the wind.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Brownsville Farm (Conservation Area) — 2.9 mi, 188° S
Fowling Point (Conservation Area) — 4.7 mi, 186° S
Parramore Island State Natural Area Preserve (State Conservation Area) — 7.3 mi, 084° E
Chincoteague National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 12.9 mi, 054° NE · 37k acres
Parkers Marsh Natural Area Preserve (Marine Protected Area) — 14.5 mi, 355° N
Wreck Island Natural Area Preserve (Marine Protected Area) — 15.2 mi, 179° S
Mockhorn Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 15.8 mi, 190° S
Martin National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 19.3 mi, 346° N · 8,559 acres
Town of Parksley War Memorial (Monument) — 20.3 mi, 024° NE
Eastern Shore Railway Museum (Museum) — 20.4 mi, 024° NE
Historic Palace Theatre (Theatre) — 20.7 mi, 214° SW
At Altitude Gallery (Gallery) — 20.7 mi, 214° SW
Kiptopeke State Park (State Park) — 25.3 mi, 201° S
Cape Charles Light (Attraction) — 27.7 mi, 191° S
Observation Deck (Viewpoint) — 28.0 mi, 198° S
Mathews Historical Museum (Museum) — 28.8 mi, 259° W
Mathews County Confederate Monument (Monument) — 28.8 mi, 259° W
Makemie Monument (Monument) — 30.3 mi, 018° N
Janes Island Sp (State Park) — 31.6 mi, 353° N
Assateague Island National Seashore (National Lakeshore) — 32.1 mi, 041° NE · 96k acres
Reedville Fishermen's Museum (Museum) — 34.2 mi, 312° NW
Half Shell Stage (Theatre) — 34.3 mi, 294° NW
Nature Center (Museum) — 34.3 mi, 356° N
Mary Ball Washington Museum & Library (Museum) — 40.0 mi, 296° NW
Pocomoke Fair Grounds (Theme Park) — 40.1 mi, 019° N
Booker Taliaferro Washington School (historical) (Historic Ruins) — 40.4 mi, 302° NW
Lockheed T-33 (Attraction) — 40.6 mi, 020° N
François Joseph Paul de Grasse (Public Artwork) — 42.1 mi, 195° S
Redoubt 10 (Registered Battlefield) — 42.8 mi, 243° SW

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