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Clifton

The Town of Clifton is a tiny incorporated town in southwestern Fairfax County, Northern Virginia, with just 243 residents in 2020. Incorporated in 1902 and a National Register historic district since 1985, its preserved 19th-century railroad-village core and surrounding five-acre zoning have kept it small, wooded and famously quaint.

243 (2020 Census)
Population
1902
Incorporated
20124
ZIP code
Fairfax
County

What Clifton is known for

  • The Clifton Historic District — added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1985 as a preserved Victorian railroad village.
  • The annual Clifton Day festival, held since 1967.
  • A heavily forested, low-density character preserved by surrounding five-acre-minimum zoning.

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