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Farrs Corner is an unincorporated community in Fairfax County, in the U.S. state of Virginia.. Located about five miles southeast of the Clifton, Virginia town proper and two miles north of Lake Ridge CDP, it features a Fairfax Station address.
Fairfax County: 059: Fairfax: 1742: From Prince William County: Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron, the only British noble resident in Virginia 1,141,878: 396 sq mi (1,026 km 2) Fauquier County: 061: Warrenton: 1759: From Prince William County: Francis Fauquier, colonial lieutenant governor of Virginia 75,165: 650 sq mi (1,683 km 2 ...
Coastal plains can form in one of two ways; some begin as a continental shelf, a flat piece of land located below sea level, and are created when the ocean level falls, exposing the land. Others develop when river currents carry sediment into the ocean, which is deposited and builds up over time until it forms a coastal plain.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
Only about 26% of their original extent remaining, Coastal Swamp Oak Forests generally occur on light or alluvial soil on coastal flats, floodplains, drainage lines, lake margins, wetlands and estuarine fringes where soils are at least at times saturated, marshy or overflowed. Some may occur on coastal dune swales or flats. [1]
The center of Fairfax is 5 miles (8 km) to the east, and downtown Washington, D.C. is 22 miles (35 km) to the east along I-66. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Fair Lakes CDP has a total area of 2.42 square miles (6.26 km 2 ), of which 2.39 square miles (6.19 km 2 ) is land and 0.02 square miles (0.06 km 2 ), or 1.00%, is water.
Fairfax, Virginia (/ ˈ f ɛər f æ k s / FAIR-faks), [a] is an independent city in Virginia and the county seat of Fairfax County, Virginia, in the United States. [4] As of the 2020 census, the population was 25,536. [5] Fairfax is part of both the Washington metropolitan area and Northern Virginia regions.
A historical marker in Bailey's Crossroads. Hachaliah Bailey, the founder of one of America's earliest circuses, which in time evolved into the Bailey component of what became the Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, moved to Northern Virginia in 1837, bought the land surrounding the intersection of Leesburg Pike and Columbia Pike in Fairfax County, Virginia, near Falls Church, Virginia ...