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Vienna, Virginia

Vienna, Virginia
Town
Street scene in Vienna
Street scene in Vienna
Official seal of Vienna, Virginia
Seal
Location of Vienna in Fairfax County, Virginia
Location of Vienna in Fairfax County, Virginia
Vienna, Virginia is located in Northern Virginia
Vienna, Virginia
Vienna, Virginia
Vienna, Virginia is located in Virginia
Vienna, Virginia
Vienna, Virginia
Vienna, Virginia is located in the US
Vienna, Virginia
Vienna, Virginia
Location of Vienna in Fairfax County, Virginia
Coordinates: 38°54′N 77°16′W / 38.900°N 77.267°W / 38.900; -77.267Coordinates: 38°54′N 77°16′W / 38.900°N 77.267°W / 38.900; -77.267
Country United States
State Virginia
County Fairfax
Incorporated 1890
Settled 1754
Government
 • Type Mayor-council government
 • Mayor Laurie A. DiRocco (Nonpartisan)
Area
 • Total 4.4 sq mi (11.5 km2)
 • Land 4.4 sq mi (11.5 km2)
 • Water 0.0 sq mi (0.0 km2)
Elevation 358 ft (109 m)
Population (2010)
 • Total 15,687
 • Density 3,600/sq mi (1,400/km2)
Time zone Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
 • Summer (DST) EDT (UTC-4)
ZIP codes 22180-22183, 22185
Area code(s) 571 and 703
FIPS code 51-81072
GNIS feature ID 1500258
Website www.viennava.gov

Vienna is a town in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. As of the 2010 United States Census, it had a population of 15,687. Significantly more people live in ZIP codes with the Vienna postal addresses (22180, 22181, and 22182) bordered approximately by Interstate 66 on the south, Interstate 495 on the east, Route 7 to the north, and Hunter Mill road.

In August 2013, CNN/Money and Money magazine ranked Vienna, VA third on its list of the 100 best places to live in the United States. In addition to highly ranked public schools, its assets include a downtown with many small businesses, a Washington Metro station with large parking garages (the western terminus of the Orange Line) just south of the town, and a portion of the Washington & Old Dominion Railroad Regional Park hiker/biker trail cutting through the center of the town. Tysons Corner, a residential, commercial and shopping district, is nearby, as is Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts.

Non-native settlement in the region dates to ca. 1740. In 1754, prominent soldier and land owner Colonel Charles Broadwater settled within the town boundaries. Broadwater's son-in-law, John Hunter built the first recorded house there in 1767, naming it Ayr Hill (recalling his birthplace, Ayr, Scotland.) That name was subsequently applied to the tiny, developing community. The name of the town was changed in the 1850s, when a doctor named William Hendrick settled there on the condition that the town would rename itself after his hometown, Phelps, New York, then known as Vienna.

On June 17, 1861 a relatively minor but widely noted military engagement occurred there, the Battle of Vienna, one of the earliest armed clashes of the Civil War. A would-be Union occupation unit under Brig. Gen. Robert C. Schenck approached Vienna from the east by train but was ambushed and forced to retreat by a superior Confederate force led by Colonel Maxcy Gregg. Today, several historical markers in Vienna detail its Civil War history.


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