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Kingstowne, Virginia
Shops and office building in Kingstowne, August 2015
Shops and office building in Kingstowne, August 2015
Kingstowne, Virginia is located in Northern Virginia
Kingstowne, Virginia
Kingstowne, Virginia
Location in Northern Virginia
Kingstowne, Virginia is located in Virginia
Kingstowne, Virginia
Kingstowne, Virginia
Location in Virginia
Kingstowne, Virginia is located in the United States
Kingstowne, Virginia
Kingstowne, Virginia
Location in the United States
Country United States
State Virginia
County Fairfax
Area
 • Total 2.9 sq mi (7.5 km2)
 • Land 2.9 sq mi (7.4 km2)
 • Water 0.04 sq mi (0.1 km2)
Elevation
200 ft (60 m)
Population
 (2010)
 • Total 15,556
 • Density 5,436/sq mi (2,098.9/km2)
Time zone UTC−5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST) UTC−4 (EDT)
ZIP code
22315
FIPS code 51-42746
GNIS feature ID 2584862

Kingstowne is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. It is a planned community amid the Washington, D.C. suburbs of Springfield, Alexandria, and Franconia, Virginia, and is centered on the intersection of South Van Dorn Street and Kingstowne Boulevard. The population as of the 2010 census was 15,556.

Kingstowne has a town center containing office and retail businesses. The entire community comprises numerous subdivisions containing apartments, condominiums, single-family homes, and townhomes. It began construction in the 1980s through the Halle Companies and is still expanding today in the town center with commercial and office space and in the subdivisions with more single-family homes. Kingstowne has its own ZIP code, 22315, a substation of the Alexandria U.S. Post Office.

Geography

The Kingstowne CDP is in southeastern Fairfax County, bordered to the north and west by Franconia, to the northeast by Rose Hill, to the southeast by Hayfield, to the south by Fort Belvoir, and for a short distance at its southwestern end by Newington. Downtown Washington, D.C., is 13 miles (21 km) to the northeast.

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Kingstowne CDP has a total area of 2.9 square miles (7.5 km2), of which 2.9 square miles (7.4 km2) is land and 0.04 square miles (0.1 km2), or 1.49%, is water.

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