📍 Fairfax County, Virginia
Fairfax Station
Fairfax Station is a quiet, wooded community in southern Fairfax County, Virginia, governed by the county. Named for the 1852 Orange & Alexandria Railroad depot, it is steeped in Civil War history — Clara Barton nursed the wounded here after Second Manassas. Today it is a sought-after community of about 12,000 known for spacious homes and the Fairfax Station Railroad Museum.
12,420 (2020 Census)
Population
Fairfax Station rail depot (1852)
Named for
22039
ZIP code
Fairfax (unincorporated)
County
What Fairfax Station is known for
- Civil War history: Clara Barton tended Union wounded here after the Second Battle of Manassas (1862).
- The Fairfax Station Railroad Museum, on the site of the original Orange & Alexandria depot.
- A wooded, low-density community of large lots feeding into top FCPS schools.
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