Waples Mill
Waples Mill is a quarter in Fairfax County, Northern Virginia, Virginia. Waples Mill is situated nearby to the neighborhood Fairfax Farms, as well as near Fairfax Acres.Places of Interest
Highlights include National Firearms Museum and Fair Oaks Mall.
National Firearms Museum
Museum
The NRA National Firearms Museum is a museum located at the NRA Headquarters Building in Fairfax County, Virginia. Approximated 2,500 guns are displayed in 15,000 square feet.
Fair Oaks Mall
Shopping center
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Fair Oaks Mall is a shopping mall in the Fair Oaks census-designated place of unincorporated Fairfax County, Virginia, just northwest of the independent city of Fairfax.
Flint Hill School
School
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Flint Hill School, founded in 1956, is a private, co-educational, college preparatory school, in Oakton, Virginia, serving grades JK–12. The school has separate upper and lower school campuses about a mile apart in Fairfax County, approximately 20 miles from Washington, D.C. In 2025, Niche ranked Flint Hill School 9 out of 2,489 private schools in the United States, making it the best in Virginia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fair Oaks and Oakton.
Fair Oaks
Village
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Fair Oaks is a census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The population at the 2020 census was 34,052. It encompasses a large area west of the city of Fairfax, centered on Fair Oaks Mall.
Oakton
Town
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Oakton is a census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The population was 36,732 at the 2020 census. Located in Northern Virginia, its center is 16 miles west of Washington, D.C.… Oakton is situated 2 miles east of Waples Mill.
Difficult Run
Village
Difficult Run is a census designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The population was 10,600 at the 2020 census. Difficult Run is situated 2 miles northwest of Waples Mill.
Waples Mill
- Type: Quarter
- Category: locality
- Location: Fairfax County, Northern Virginia, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
38.874° or 38° 52′ 26″ northLongitude
-77.33693° or 77° 20′ 13″ westElevation
335 feet (102 metres)Open location code
87C4VMF7+J6OpenStreetMap ID
node 158564230OpenStreetMap feature
place=quarterGeoNames ID
4792138
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