Explore Woodlawn, 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 Woodlawn, 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 Woodlawn.
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 | Woodlawn |
| State | Virginia (VA) |
| County | Stafford County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 36.738767 |
| Longitude | -80.809459 |
| Population | 2,045 |
| Density | 41.1 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 24153, 24381, 22405, 22309 |
| Area Code | 540, 703, 571 |
| County Seat | Stafford |
| School District | Carroll County Public Schools |
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.
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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).
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. |