Warfield is a
census-designated place (CDP) in
Brunswick County,
Virginia,
United States. The population as of the
2010 Census was 115.
The settlement is located along a former railroad. The
Richmond, Petersburg and Carolina Railroad
The Richmond, Petersburg and Carolina Railroad was a railroad built in the early 1900s. As its name suggests, it ran from Richmond, Virginia south through Petersburg into northern North Carolina. It was a key part of the network of the Seaboar ...
, passing through Warfield from
Petersburg, Virginia to Ridgeway Junction (today
Norlina, North Carolina), was completed in 1900, at which point it was merged into the
Seaboard Air Line (SAL). A railway station was built at some point by 1914, when the population of Warfield was estimated by the railroad to be somewhere around 100.
The line (dubbed the "S" line after later mergers) continued to operate until the 1980s, and today Warfield is along the abandoned portion of the CSX
Norlina Subdivision.
References
Virginia Trend Report 2: State and Complete Places (Sub-state 2010 Census Data)*
Unincorporated communities in Virginia
Census-designated places in Brunswick County, Virginia
Census-designated places in Virginia
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