Kings Park, Virginia
| Kings Park, Virginia | |
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| Census-designated place | |
Houses in Kings Park in 2016
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| Coordinates: 38°48′12″N 77°14′36″W / 38.80333°N 77.24333°WCoordinates: 38°48′12″N 77°14′36″W / 38.80333°N 77.24333°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | Virginia |
| County | Fairfax |
| Area | |
| • Total | 1.33 sq mi (3.45 km2) |
| • Land | 1.31 sq mi (3.38 km2) |
| • Water | 0.02 sq mi (0.06 km2) |
| Elevation | 345 ft (105 m) |
| Population (2010) | |
| • Total | 4,333 |
| • Density | 3,316/sq mi (1,280.4/km2) |
| Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
| • Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
| FIPS code | 51-42664 |
| GNIS feature ID | 1493167 |
Kings Park is a census-designated place (CDP) in the eastern United States in Fairfax County, Virginia, southwest of Washington D.C. The population as of the 2010 census was 4,333.
A suburban community begun 57 years ago in early 1960, Kings Park is located a few miles west of the Capital Beltway and Annandale, near the junction of Braddock, Burke Lake, and Rolling roads in the Springfield area (ZIP code 22151). Richmarr Construction designed Kings Park as a planned community, with a park at its center, an elementary school, and an adjacent namesake shopping center.
Ownership of the properties can be traced to Lord Culpeper who transferred the lands which now include Kings Park and Ravensworth Farm to William Fitzhugh in 1690. The land passed through Martha Custis, the wife of George Washington, to her son George Custis, then to his daughter, Mary Randolph Custis, who married Robert E. Lee at Arlington when he was a young officer in the U.S Army.
After the outbreak of the Civil War, Mary Custis Lee moved to relative safety at the Ravensworth Farm. Ownership of the property remained in the Lee family until World War I, when the land was sold to the Flatfelter Pulpwood Company. The company removed most of the softwood trees but retrained the hardwood, many of which are still in abundance in Kings Park.
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