Rixeyville is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...

Culpeper County Culpeper County is a county located along the borderlands of the northern and central region of the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 52,552. Its county seat and only incorporated community is C ...

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, United States. Rixeyville is located on Virginia State Route 229 north of Culpeper. Rixeyville has a

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with ZIP code 22737, which opened on February 16, 1818. The Rixey family owned plantations in the area before the

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. U.S. Congressman

John Franklin Rixey John Franklin Rixey (August 1, 1854 – February 8, 1907) was a Democratic U.S. Congressman from Virginia's 8th congressional district from 1897 to 1907. Early and family life John Franklin Rixey was born on August 1, 1854, in the Catalpa dis ...

represented Virginia's 8th Congressional district for a decade (1897–1907).

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Unincorporated communities in Culpeper County, Virginia Unincorporated communities in Virginia {{CulpeperCountyVA-geo-stub