Five Forks
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet
- Description: unincorporated community in Dinwiddie County, Virginia
- Also known as: “Five Forks, Dinwiddie County, Virginia”
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dinwiddie and Sutherland.
Dinwiddie
Village
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.
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. Dinwiddie is situated 4½ miles southeast of Five Forks.
Sutherland
Village
Sutherland is an unincorporated community in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, United States. Sutherland is located on U.S. Route 460, 9 miles west-southwest of Petersburg. Sutherland is situated 5 miles northeast of Five Forks.
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 6 miles south of Five Forks.
Five Forks
- Categories: unincorporated community in the United States and locality
- Location: Dinwiddie, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.13949° or 37° 8′ 22″ northLongitude
-77.623° or 77° 37′ 23″ westElevation
299 feet (91 metres)Open location code
879449QG+QQOpenStreetMap ID
node 157625588OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From French to Irish—“Five Forks” goes by many names.
- French: “Five Forks”
- Irish: “Five Forks”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Five Forks”. Photo: Rob Shenk, CC BY-SA 2.0.