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Breaks is a small unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) mostly in Buchanan County, Virginia, United States. A small portion of the CDP is in
Dickenson County Dickenson County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 14,124. Its county seat is Clintwood. History Dickenson County, formed in 1880 from parts of Buchanan County, Russell County, ...
. Breaks is located very close to the Kentucky border and is east of Breaks Interstate Park. Breaks gets its name in reference to the "break" in Pine Mountain, a mountain range that spans along the Kentucky-Virginia border and ends near the community of Breaks. It was first listed as a CDP in the 2020 census with a population of 144. It was in Breaks that U.S. Senator George Allen called
S. R. Sidarth The controversies of the 2006 United States Senate election in Virginia involved both Republican incumbent senator George Allen and Democratic opponent Jim Webb. However, a majority of these controversies negatively impacted Allen and are belie ...
, a volunteer for the Jim Webb campaign and an
Indian American Indian Americans or Indo-Americans are citizens of the United States with ancestry from India. The United States Census Bureau uses the term Asian Indian to avoid confusion with Native Americans, who have also historically been referred to ...
, a macaca. This started a controversy that gained national attention.


Demographics

Breaks has a population of 377 people who are all white with 64.1% who are married, 34% married with children and 18.9% have children but are single.


Attractions

* Breaks Interstate Park *
Russell Fork The Russell Fork, 1975 Board on Geographic Names decision is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed June 13, 2011 tributary of the Levisa Fork in southwestern Virginia and sout ...
, a popular whitewater rafting stream * Willowbrook Country Club, a 9-hole golf course


References

Census-designated places in Buchanan County, Virginia Census-designated places in Dickenson County, Virginia Census-designated places in Virginia Unincorporated communities in Buchanan County, Virginia Unincorporated communities in Dickenson County, Virginia Unincorporated communities in Virginia {{DickensonCountyVA-geo-stub