Bluemont, Virginia

For the suburb in Arlington, see Bluemont, Arlington, Virginia.

Bluemont, Virginia
Unincorporated community
Bluemont is located in Northern Virginia
Bluemont
Bluemont
Bluemont is located in Virginia
Bluemont
Bluemont
Bluemont is located in the United States
Bluemont
Bluemont
Coordinates: 39°06′39″N 77°50′00″W / 39.110748°N 77.833376°W / 39.110748; -77.833376
Country United States
State Virginia
County Loudoun
Elevation
[1]
722 ft (220 m)
Time zoneUTC−5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC−4 (EDT)
GNIS feature ID1492596[1]

Bluemont is an unincorporated village in Loudoun County, Virginia located at the eastern base of Snickers Gap in the Blue Ridge Mountains. The village's center is located along Snickersville Turnpike (Virginia Route 734), 4 miles (6.4 km) west of the incorporated town of Round Hill. The village borders Virginia's fox hunting country and is within 1 mile (1.6 km) of the Appalachian Trail and the Bears Den and Raven Rocks formations in the Blue Ridge.[2]

Originally named Snickersville, the village renamed itself to Bluemont to help it attract visitors from Washington, D.C. when a predecessor of the Washington and Old Dominion Railroad extended its line westward from Round Hill in 1900. As of 2010, the Bluemont postal area had a population of 2,834. At 700 feet (210 m),[3] it is the highest community in Loudoun County. Every fall on the third full weekend in September it is home to the Bluemont Fair, an all-volunteer-organized fair that began in 1970.

A nearby landmark is Mount Weather, an operations and training facility above ground for the Federal Emergency Management Agency and is rumored to contain an underground facility designed to house or replace the U.S. government in the event that it is destroyed in an emergency (such as nuclear warfare).[citation needed]

  1. ^ a b U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Bluemont, Virginia
  2. ^ "About Bluemont". Welcome to Bluemont. Bluemont, Virginia: Bluemont Citizens Association. Archived from the original on June 15, 2019. Retrieved January 19, 2020.
  3. ^ Elevation of Bluemont from CalTopo Archived December 3, 2019, at the Wayback Machine Retrieved January 19, 2020.