Dinwiddie
Dinwiddie is an unincorporated community, census-designated place, and the county seat of Dinwiddie County, Virginia, United States. It was first listed as a CDP in the 2020 census with a population of 619.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 619 residents
- Description: census-designated place in Virginia, United States
- Also known as: “Dinwiddie Court House”, “Dinwiddie, VA”, and “Dinwiddie, Virginia”
- Postal code: 23841
Places of Interest
Highlights include Dinwiddie County Court House and Dinwiddie High School.
Dinwiddie County Court House
Courthouse
Photo: Cecouchman, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Dinwiddie County Court House is a historic courthouse building located at the junction of U.S. 1 and VA 619 in Dinwiddie, Dinwiddie County, Virginia. It was built in 1851, and is a two-story, brick temple-form building in the Greek Revival style.
Dinwiddie High School
School building
Photo: Mojo Hand, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Dinwiddie High School is a secondary school in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, United States. It is the only high school in the county. Dinwiddie High School is situated 2½ miles north of Dinwiddie.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Butterworth and DeWitt.
Butterworth
Hamlet
Butterworth is an unincorporated community in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, United States. Butterworth is located along a former railroad mainline. The Richmond, Petersburg and Carolina Railroad, passing through Butterworth from Petersburg to Ridgeway Junction, was completed in 1900, at which point it was merged into the Seaboard Air Line. Butterworth is situated 3 miles southwest of Dinwiddie.
DeWitt
Hamlet
DeWitt is an unincorporated community in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, United States. DeWitt is located on U.S. Route 1, 6 miles northeast of McKenney. It developed in a rural area of the county devoted to plantations worked by enslaved African Americans. DeWitt is situated 4 miles southwest of Dinwiddie.
Five Forks
Hamlet
Photo: Rob Shenk, CC BY-SA 2.0.
Five Forks Battlefield is a battlefield of the American Civil War, the location of the Battle of Five Forks, in which Union Army forces broke through Confederate Army lines, opening the way to gain control of the last rail line to besieged Petersburg. Five Forks is situated 4½ miles northwest of Dinwiddie.
Dinwiddie
Latitude
37.07793° or 37° 4′ 41″ northLongitude
-77.58666° or 77° 35′ 12″ westPopulation
619Elevation
256 feet (78 metres)United Nations Location Code
US D3DOpen location code
87943CH7+58OpenStreetMap ID
node 158231589OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From French to Welsh—“Dinwiddie” goes by many names.
- French: “Dinwiddie”
- Gilaki: “دین ویدی (ويرجينيا)”
- Gilaki: “دین ویدی”
- Hungarian: “Dinwiddie”
- Irish: “Dinwiddie”
- Japanese: “ディンウィディ”
- Ladin: “Dinwiddie”
- Persian: “دینویدی، ویرجینیا”
- Persian: “دینویدی”
- Polish: “Dinwiddie”
- Portuguese: “Dinwiddie”
- Slovenian: “Dinwiddie”
- South Azerbaijani: “دینویدی، ویرجینیا”
- Spanish: “Dinwiddie”
- Swedish: “Dinwiddie, Virginia”
- Swedish: “Dinwiddie”
- Volapük: “Dinwiddie”
- Welsh: “Dinwiddie, Virginia”
- Welsh: “Dinwiddie”
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