Whitetop 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 Grayson County,

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 ...

, United States. It is the southern terminus of the Virginia Creeper Trail. Whitetop is named for nearby

Whitetop Mountain Whitetop Mountain is the second highest independent mountain in the U.S. state of Virginia, after nearby Mount Rogers. It is also the third highest named peak in Virginia, after Mount Rogers and its subsidiary peak, Pine Mountain. It is loc ...

, the second-tallest independent mountain in the State of Virginia, behind Mount Rogers. The town is approximately four miles northeast of the North Carolina–Tennessee–Virginia Corners.

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Unincorporated communities in Virginia Unincorporated communities in Grayson County, Virginia {{GraysonCountyVA-geo-stub