National Register of Historic Places listings in Virginia explained

Buildings, sites, districts, and objects in Virginia listed on the National Register of Historic Places:

As of, there are 3,027 properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in all 95 Virginia counties and 37 of the 38 independent cities, including 120 National Historic Landmarks and National Historic Landmark Districts, four National Historical Parks, two national monuments, two National Battlefield Parks, one National Memorial, one National Battlefield and one National Military Park.

Current listings by county and independent city

The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county and independent city. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site.[1] There are frequent additions to the listings and occasional delistings and the counts here are approximate and not official. The counts in this table exclude boundary increase and decrease listings which modify the area covered by an existing property or district and which carry a separate National Register reference number.

County/City
  1. of
    Sites
1Accomack30
2Albemarle104
3Alexandria (city)50
4Alleghany14
5Amelia10
6Amherst37
7Appomattox8
8Arlington70
9Augusta59
10Bath25
11Bedford35
12Bland4
13Botetourt30
14Bristol (city)13
15Brunswick12
16Buchanan1
17Buckingham12
18Buena Vista (city)6
19Campbell19
20Caroline22
21Carroll9
22Charles City29
23Charlotte20
24Charlottesville (city)67
25Chesapeake (city)10
26Chesterfield29
27Clarke41
28Colonial Heights (city)8
29Covington (city)5
30Craig6
31Culpeper29
32Cumberland17
33Danville (city)21
34Dickenson1
35Dinwiddie18
36Emporia (city)7
37Essex17
38Fairfax68
39Fairfax (city)6
40Falls Church (city)6
41Fauquier70
42Floyd10
43Fluvanna18
44Franklin26
45Franklin (city)5
46Frederick29
47Fredericksburg (city)28
48Galax (city)4
49Giles11
50Gloucester34
51Goochland25
52Grayson7
53Greene9
54Greensville3
55Halifax39
56Hampton (city)30
57Hanover46
58Harrisonburg (city)13
59Henrico34
60Henry19
61Highland8
62Hopewell (city)9
63Isle Of Wight21
64James City19
65King and Queen17
66King George15
67King William21
68Lancaster13
69Lee9
70Lexington (city)18
71Loudoun98
72Louisa21
73Lunenburg11
74Lynchburg (city)55
75Madison21
76Manassas (city)7
77Manassas Park (city)2
78Martinsville (city)8
79Mathews16
80Mecklenburg28
81Middlesex16
82Montgomery71
83Nelson28
84New Kent18
85Newport News (city)36
86Norfolk (city)63
87Northampton30
88Northumberland27
89Norton (city)1
90Nottoway12
91Orange36
92Page33
93Patrick12
94Petersburg (city)44
95Pittsylvania22
96Poquoson (city)0
97Portsmouth (city)23
98Powhatan20
99Prince Edward15
100Prince George10
101Prince William45
102Pulaski24
103Radford (city)8
104Rappahannock19
105Richmond10
106Richmond (city)230
107Roanoke12
108Roanoke (city)55
109Rockbridge51
110Rockingham44
111Russell11
112Salem (city)19
113Scott10
114Shenandoah38
115Smyth24
116Southampton19
117Spotsylvania17
118Stafford21
119Staunton (city)35
120Suffolk (city)26
121Surry20
122Sussex10
123Tazewell22
124Virginia Beach (city)33
125Warren24
126Washington17
127Waynesboro (city)11
128Westmoreland25
129Williamsburg (city)15
130Winchester (city)23
131Wise20
132Wythe22
133York12
(duplicates)(58)[2]
Total:3,284

See also

Notes and References

  1. Web site: National Register of Historic Places: Weekly List Actions . March 11, 2009 . National Park Service . January 26, 2011 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110126114305/http://www.cr.nps.gov/nr/nrlist.htm . dead .
  2. The following sites are listed in more than one county or city: (Arlington, Falls Church (city)), Bear's Den Rural Historic District (Clarke, Loudoun), Buffalo Mountain Presbyterian Church and Cemetery (Carroll, Floyd), Cartersville Bridge (Cumberland, Goochland), Cedar Creek Battlefield and Belle Grove (Frederick, Shenandoah, Warren), Clarkton Bridge (Charlotte, Halifax), Cleridge (Clarke, Frederick), Colonial National Historical Park (James City, Williamsburg (city), York), Douthat State Park Historic District (Alleghany, Bath), Fortsville (Southampton, Sussex), Georgetown Pike (Arlington, Fairfax), Greenwood-Afton Historic District (Albemarle, Augusta, and Nelson), Haines Chapel and Cemetery (Nelson and Rockbridge), High Bridge (Cumberland and Prince Edward), James River and Kanawha Canal Historic District (Henrico, Richmond (city)), Keswick (Chesterfield, Powhatan), Manassas National Battlefield Park (Fairfax, Prince William), Milford Battlefield (Page, Warren), Millers Tavern Rural Historic District (Essex, King and Queen), Gen. William Mitchell House (Fauquier, Loudoun), Mount Vernon Memorial Highway (Alexandria (city), Arlington, Fairfax), Norfolk Southern Six Mile Bridge No. 58 (Amherst, Campbell), Northwest No. 3 Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia (Arlington, Fairfax), Page County Bridge No. 1990 (Page, Warren), Rapidan Historic District (Culpeper, Orange), Orange and Alexandria Railroad Bridge Piers (Fairfax, Prince William), Quantico Marine Corps Base Historic District (Prince William, Stafford), Rugby Road-University Corner Historic District (Albemarle, Charlottesville (city)), Saltville Battlefields Historic District (Smyth, Washington), Sayler's Creek Battlefield (Amelia, Prince Edward) Scottsville Historic District (Albemarle, Fluvanna), Seven Islands Archeological and Historic District (Buckingham, Fluvanna), Skyline Drive Historic District (Albemarle, Augusta, Greene, Madison, Page, Rockingham, Rappahannock, Warren), Southwest No. 4 Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia (Alexandria (city), Arlington), Southwest No. 5 Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia (Alexandria (city), Arlington), Southwest No. 6 Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia (Arlington, Fairfax), Southwest No. 7 Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia (Arlington, Fairfax), Southwest No. 8 Boundary Marker of the Original District of Columbia (Arlington, Fairfax), Swannanoa (Augusta, Nelson), Thoroughfare Gap Battlefield (Fauquier, Prince William), George Washington Memorial Parkway (Arlington, Fairfax), West Cornerstone (Arlington, Fairfax, Falls Church), Woolen Mills Village Historic District (Albemarle, Charlottesville (city)), Beverley Mill (Fauquier, Prince William), Broad Run-Little Georgetown Rural Historic District (Fauquier, Prince William), Fredericksburg and Spotsylvania National Military Park (Fredericksburg (city), Spotsylvania County), Blue Ridge Tunnel (Augusta, Nelson)