Fort Belvoir
Fort Belvoir is a United States Army installation and a census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. It was developed on the site of the former Belvoir plantation, seat of the prominent Fairfax family for whom Fairfax County was named.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 7,640 residents
- Description: United States Army installation and a CDP in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States
- Also known as: “Camp A. A. Humphreys”, “Fort Belvoir CDP”, and “Fort Belvoir, VA”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Alexander T. Augusta Military Medical Center and Woodlawn.
Alexander T. Augusta Military Medical Center
Hospital
Photo: Official Navy Page, Public domain.
The Alexander T. Augusta Military Medical Center is a United States Department of Defense medical facility located on Fort Belvoir, Virginia, outside of Washington D.C.
Woodlawn
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Woodlawn is a historic house located in Fairfax County, Virginia. Originally a part of Mount Vernon, George Washington's historic plantation estate, it was subdivided in the 19th century by abolitionists to demonstrate the viability of a free labor system.
Pope–Leighey House
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
The Pope–Leighey House, formerly known as the Loren Pope Residence, is a suburban home in Virginia designed by American architect Frank Lloyd Wright. The house, which belongs to the National Trust for Historic Preservation, has been relocated twice and sits on the grounds of Woodlawn Plantation, Alexandria, Virginia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Accotink and Belvoir.
Accotink
Quarter
Photo: Ser Amantio di Nicolao, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Accotink is an unincorporated community in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. Accotink is located along Accotink Creek within Fort Belvoir. Accotink Bay, Accotink Bay Wildlife Refuge, and Lake Accotink are also in the area.
Belvoir
Neighborhood
Belvoir was the plantation and estate of colonial Virginia's prominent William Fairfax family. Operated with the forced labor of enslaved people, it was located on the west bank of the Potomac River on the present site of Fort Belvoir in Fairfax County, Virginia. Belvoir is situated 2 miles southeast of Fort Belvoir.
Woodlawn
Village
Photo: Ser Amantio di Nicolao, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Woodlawn is a census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The population as of the 2010 census was 20,804. It was carved out of the Mount Vernon CDP beginning with the 2010 census, from the west it goes from Fort Belvoir to Little Hunting Creek stretching along U.S. Route 1 on the south and Huntley Meadows Park on the north. Woodlawn is situated 2½ miles northeast of Fort Belvoir.
Fort Belvoir
Latitude
38.71048° or 38° 42′ 38″ northLongitude
-77.14715° or 77° 8′ 50″ westPopulation
7,640Elevation
138 feet (42 metres)IATA airport code
DAAUnited Nations Location Code
US DAAOpen location code
87C4PV63+54OpenStreetMap ID
node 11620160801OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
7257902Wikidata ID
Q1375761
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In Other Languages
From Bulgarian to Welsh—“Fort Belvoir” goes by many names.
- Bulgarian: “Форт Белвар”
- Catalan: “Fort Belvoir”
- Cebuano: “Fort Belvoir”
- Chinese: “Belvoir堡”
- Chinese: “Fort Belvoir”
- Chinese: “貝爾佛堡”
- Chinese: “貝爾沃堡”
- Chinese: “貝爾沃堡市”
- Chinese: “贝尔沃堡”
- Chinese: “贝尔沃堡市”
- Danish: “Fort Belvoir”
- Dutch: “Fort Belvoir”
- French: “Fort Belvoir”
- German: “Camp A. A. Humphreys”
- German: “Fort Belvoir”
- Gilaki: “فؤرت بلوار (ويرجينيا)”
- Gilaki: “فؤرت بلوار”
- Hebrew: “פורט בלוור”
- Indonesian: “Benteng Belvoir”
- Irish: “Fort Belvoir”
- Italian: “Fort Belvoir”
- Japanese: “フォート・ベルヴォア”
- Japanese: “フォート・ベルヴォアール”
- Japanese: “フォート・ベルボア”
- Japanese: “フォート・ベルボア陸軍基地”
- Japanese: “フォート・ベルモア”
- Japanese: “フォートベルヴォア”
- Japanese: “フォートベルヴォワール”
- Japanese: “ベルボア基地”
- Korean: “포트 벨보어”
- Korean: “포트벨보어”
- Ladin: “Fort Belvoir”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Fort Belvoir”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fort Belvoir”
- Norwegian Nynorsk: “Fort Belvoir”
- Persian: “فورت بلوار”
- Persian: “فورت بلووار”
- Polish: “Fort Belvoir”
- Portuguese: “Fort Belvoir”
- Russian: “Форт-Белвуар”
- Serbian: “Форт Белвор”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fort Belvoir, Virginia”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fort Belvoir”
- Slovenian: “Fort Belvoir”
- Spanish: “Fort Belvoir (Virginia)”
- Spanish: “Fort Belvoir”
- Swedish: “Fort Belvoir”
- Turkish: “Fort Belvoir”
- Uzbek: “Fort Belvoir”
- Uzbek: “Форт Белвоир”
- Volapük: “Fort Belvoir”
- Welsh: “Fort Belvoir, Virginia”
- Welsh: “Fort Belvoir”
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