Fork Union is an unincorporated community in southern
Fluvanna County, Virginia
Fluvanna County is a county located in the Piedmont region of the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 27,249. Its county seat is Palmyra, while the most populous community is the census designa ...
, along
U.S. Highway 15. Its
ZIP code is 23055; the population within that ZIP code was 1148 according to the
2000 Census. It is known mainly as the home of
Fork Union Military Academy, Fork Union Animal Clinic and formerly had one of the few surviving
drive-in theatres in
Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the East Coast of the United States ...
(1.5 miles south of town in an area known as
Weber City). Fork Union is also home to a post office, a bank, a small grocery store, a supermarket, a dollar store and two independently owned restaurants. The Village of Fork Union is the location of Fluvanna County's only Presbyterian congregation
Fork Union Presbyterian Church The
James River
The James River is a river in Virginia that begins in the Appalachian Mountains and flows from the confluence of the Cowpasture and Jackson Rivers in Botetourt County U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowli ...
is just a few miles from Fork Union.
Melrose and
Western View are listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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.
References
Unincorporated communities in Fluvanna County, Virginia
Unincorporated communities in Virginia
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