Fort Hunt
Fort Hunt is a census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The area is named after Fort Hunt, which was built on the bank of the Potomac River in 1897 to defend Washington, D.C. from naval attack and is now a public park.- Type: Village with 16,000 residents
- Description: census designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States
- Also known as: “Fort Hunt (Virginia)”, “Fort Hunt, VA”, “Fort Hunt, Virginia”, and “Форт Ҳунт”
Places of Interest
Highlights: Inova Mount Vernon Hospital and Walt Whitman Middle School.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Waynewood and Arcturus.
Fort Hunt
Latitude
38.73327° or 38° 43′ 60″ north
Longitude
-77.05596° or 77° 3′ 22″ west
Population
16,000
Elevation
33 feet (10 metres)
Open location code
87C4PWMV+8J
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Fort Hunt” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فورت هنت”
- Basque: “Fort Hunt”
- Catalan: “Fort Hunt”
- Cebuano: “Fort Hunt”
- Chechen: “Форт-Гант”
- Dutch: “Fort Hunt”
- Egyptian Arabic: “فورت هنت”
- French: “Fort Hunt”
- German: “Fort Hunt”
- Gilaki: “فؤرت هانت (ويرجينيا)”
- Gilaki: “فؤرت هانت”
- Irish: “Fort Hunt”
- Italian: “Fort Hunt”
- Japanese: “フォート・ハント”
- Ladin: “Fort Hunt”
- Malagasy: “Fort Hunt, Virginia”
- Malagasy: “Fort Hunt”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Fort Hunt”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Huntoþwīc (Uirginiæ)”
- Old English (ca. 450-1100): “Huntoþwīc”
- Persian: “فرت هانت”
- Polish: “Fort Hunt”
- Portuguese: “Fort Hunt”
- Russian: “Форт Хант”
- Serbian: “Форт Хант”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fort Hunt, Virginia”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fort Hunt”
- South Azerbaijani: “فرت هانت، ویرجینیا”
- Spanish: “Fort Hunt”
- Tatar: “Форт-Гант”
- Turkish: “Fort Hunt”
- Ukrainian: “Форт-Гант”
- Urdu: “فورٹ ہنٹ، ورجینیا”
- Uzbek: “Fort Hunt”
- Volapük: “Fort Hunt”
- Welsh: “Fort Hunt, Virginia”
- Welsh: “Fort Hunt”
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Localities in the Area
Places to explore: Snowden and Tauxemont Historic District.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights: Nativity Lutheran Church and First Church of Christ.
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Worth a closer look: Arlington and Arlington National Cemetery.
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