Colonial Forest Lake
Colonial Forest Lake is a reservoir in Hanover, Virginia. Colonial Forest Lake is situated nearby to the neighborhood Georgetown, as well as near Oak Forest.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hanover High School and Barrett Juvenile Correctional Center.
Hanover High School
School
Hanover High School is a high school located in the Mechanicsville census-designated place of unincorporated Hanover County, Virginia, United States. Kristina Reece is the current principal. It is an International Baccalaureate sponsored school.
Barrett Juvenile Correctional Center
School
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.
The Barrett Juvenile Correctional Center, also known as the Barrett Learning Center and originally as the Virginia Industrial Home School for Wayward Colored Girls and then the Virginia Industrial Home School for Colored Girls, was a residential industrial school and later a juvenile correctional facility operated by the state of Virginia near Mechanicsville, Virginia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Studley and Atlee.
Studley
Hamlet
Studley is an unincorporated community in Hanover County, Virginia, United States. Studley is 12 miles northeast of downtown Richmond. Studley has a post office with ZIP code 23162.
Atlee
Village
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Atlee or Atlee Station is an unincorporated community in central Hanover County in the Mid-Atlantic state of Virginia, United States. Atlee is located 11 miles north of Richmond on Route 637 approximately.6 miles north-northwest of the intersection of Route 637 and Virginia State Route 2 and approximately 50 miles south of Fredericksburg.
Mechanicsville
Town
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Mechanicsville is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Hanover County, Virginia, United States. The population was 39,482 during the 2020 census, up from 36,348 in the 2010 census. Mechanicsville is situated 6 miles south of Colonial Forest Lake.
Colonial Forest Lake
- Type: Reservoir
- Category: body of water
- Location: Hanover, Virginia, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.68321° or 37° 40′ 60″ northLongitude
-77.35168° or 77° 21′ 6″ westElevation
161 feet (49 metres)Open location code
8794MJMX+78OpenStreetMap ID
way 925263431OpenStreetMap feature
natural=waterOpenStreetMap feature
water=reservoirGeoNames ID
4753667
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