| Official Name: | Butterworth, Virginia |
| Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
| Pushpin Map: | Virginia#USA |
| Pushpin Label: | Butterworth |
| Subdivision Type: | Country |
| Subdivision Name: | United States |
| Subdivision Type1: | State |
| Subdivision Name1: | Virginia |
| Subdivision Type2: | County |
| Subdivision Name2: | Dinwiddie |
| Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
| Utc Offset: | -5 |
| Timezone Dst: | EDT |
| Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
| Elevation Ft: | 243 |
| Coordinates: | 37.0514°N -77.6269°W |
| Area Code: | 804 |
| Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
| Blank Info: | 1477164 |
Butterworth is an unincorporated community in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, United States.[1]
Butterworth is located along a former railroad mainline. The Richmond, Petersburg and Carolina Railroad, passing through Butterworth 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).[2] By 1914, the population of Butterworth was estimate by the railroad to be somewhere around 400.[3] The line (dubbed the "S-line" after later mergers) continued to operate until the 1980s, and today Butterworth is along the abandoned portion of the CSX Norlina Subdivision.