Fulks Run is an unincorporated community located in Rockingham County,

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, United States. It is located north of Harrisonburg and south of Bergton just to the west of Broadway on route 259, near the border of

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and the edge of

George Washington National Forest The George Washington and Jefferson National Forests is an administrative entity combining two U.S. National Forests into one of the largest areas of public land in the Eastern United States. The forests cover of land in the Appalachian Mountai ...

. The

North Fork Shenandoah River The Shenandoah River is the principal tributary of the Potomac River, long with two forks approximately long each,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed August 15, 2011 in t ...

flows past the community. It includes Fulks Run Elementary School. The Fulks Run Ruritan Park is a popular get together spot with a baseball field. Western_View_of_Shenadoah_Mountains

Fulks Run would have been inundated by the reservoir of the

Brocks Gap Dam Brocks Gap Dam was a never-built proposal for a water storage dam on the North Fork of the Shenandoah River at Brocks Gap in northwest Virginia. The proposal by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers encountered opposition from local residents and was ...

, proposed in the 1940s and 1960s. Determined local opposition defeated the dam project.

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Unincorporated communities in Rockingham County, Virginia Unincorporated communities in Virginia {{RockinghamCountyVA-geo-stub