Woodlawn Virginia Map

About Woodlawn, Virginia

Woodlawn is a locality in Stafford County, Virginia, United States. It has a population of approximately 2,045. The population density is 41.1 people per km². Woodlawn is located at 36.7388°N, 80.8095°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 24153, 24381, 22405.

Woodlawn maintains a quiet gravity, anchored by the dense, persistent textures of the interior landscape where the earth rises in slow, deliberate swells. It lies 1.8 miles northeast of Fredericksburg, VA (from Fredericksburg, VA: bearing 40°T), and is situated 5.7 miles north of Massaponax. The horizon remains stubbornly flat, though the faint, jagged silhouette of the Blue Ridge Mountains haunts the western sky like a memory of higher ground. Water defines the immediate perimeter of Woodlawn, as the steady, narrow path of Claiborne Run carves through the soil just a mile away, and the stagnant, dark surface of Lake Carroll rests only two miles to the north. Beyond these, the land shifts into the muted greens of Doncaster State Forest, a nineteen-mile expanse of timber that anchors the regional climate in a deep, damp shade. The air here holds a particular weight, thick with the scent of pine needles and damp earth, especially when the golden light of late afternoon catches the tall, unkempt grasses that border the open fields.

History in Woodlawn persists not in grand monuments, but in the slow, mechanical transition from the agrarian rhythms of the past to the modern hum of the regional economy. Life moves in alignment with the proximity of Ymca Stafford, which serves as a necessary clearing for the community, a place where the sprawl of development yields to organized recreation. While the vast expanse of Bitzner Meadow five miles away suggests a time of simpler land use, the current day is dictated by the steady flow of traffic and the persistent growth of the surrounding infrastructure. People here exist in the tension between the old, quiet solitude of the interior and the encroaching demands of a changing professional corridor. It is a place where the pace is set by the arrival of dusk across the fields, signaling a return to the hearth as the temperature drops and the shadows lengthen across the hard-packed clay.

About This Woodlawn Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Woodlawn, Virginia. Coordinates: 36.738767, -80.809459. 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 Woodlawn includes the ZIP code (24153, 24381, 22405), telephone area code (540, 703, 571), county seat of Stafford County (Stafford), and school district assignment (Carroll 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.