Topping, Virginia
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Topping 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 ...
in Middlesex County,
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, United States. Topping is located on
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east of Saluda. Topping has a
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with ZIP code 23169. Topping is home to Hummel Field, an airfield created by Fred Hummel, a member of the
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, in 1925. Hummel then donated the site to Middlesex County in 1970.
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, a historic plantation house, was listed on the
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in 2004.


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Unincorporated communities in Middlesex County, Virginia Unincorporated communities in Virginia {{MiddlesexCountyVA-geo-stub