| Official Name: | DeWitt, Virginia |
| Settlement Type: | Unincorporated community |
| Pushpin Map: | Virginia#USA |
| Pushpin Label: | DeWitt |
| 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: | 295 |
| Coordinates: | 37.0389°N -77.6433°W |
| Area Code: | 804 |
| Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
| Blank Info: | 1465671 |
DeWitt is an unincorporated community in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, United States. DeWitt is located on U.S. Route 1 6miles northeast of McKenney. It developed in a rural area of the county devoted to plantations worked by enslaved African Americans.
When completed in 1900, the Richmond, Petersburg and Carolina Railroad passed through DeWitt from Petersburg, Virginia to Ridgeway Junction (today Norlina, North Carolina). At that time, it was merged into the Seaboard Air Line (SAL).[1] By 1914, the population of DeWitt was estimated by the railroad to be about 200.[2]
This line (dubbed the "S-line" after later mergers) continued to operate until the 1980s. But the CSX Norlina Subdivision abandoned this portion of the line, isolating DeWitt from former trade and traffic.
The Stony Creek Plantation in DeWitt, with its original building constructed in 1750, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2003.