census-designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.
CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the count ...
(CDP) in and the
county seat
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Virginia
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, United States. The population was 165 at the 2010 census. The community is also known as Lunenburg Courthouse or Lunenburg Court House.
Geography
Lunenburg is in the center of Lunenburg County in southeastern Virginia. It is southwest of
Victoria
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, the largest town in the county. Virginia State Routes 40 and 49 pass through Lunenburg. SR 40 leads northwest to Keysville, while SR 49 leads southwest to Chase City. The highways join in Lunenburg and lead northeast together to Victoria.
According to the
U.S. Census Bureau
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, the Lunenburg CDP has an area of , all of it recorded as land. The community sits on a ridge which drains northwest to Couches Creek and south to Reedy Creek, both tributaries of the
Meherrin River
The Meherrin River is a long 6th order tributary to the Chowan River that joins in Hertford County, North Carolina.
A twenty-foot-high dam on the river creates a reservoir in Emporia. For most of its length, the Meherrin is not large enough f ...
, which flows southeast to the
Chowan River
The Chowan River (cho-WAHHN) , from the North Carolina Collection's website at the
Albemarle Sound
Albemarle Sound () is a large estuary on the coast of North Carolina in the United States located at the confluence of a group of rivers, including the Chowan and Roanoke. It is separated from the Atlantic Ocean by the Currituck Banks, a bar ...
in
North Carolina
North Carolina () is a state in the Southeastern region of the United States. The state is the 28th largest and 9th-most populous of the United States. It is bordered by Virginia to the north, the Atlantic Ocean to the east, Georgia and ...