The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusKingstowne 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 2020 census was 16,825. 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 subdivisi…
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 15,556 to 16,825 (+8%). Half of its homes were built before 1994.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Kingstowne yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
Start Kingstowne’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Kingstowne’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Kingstowne, decade by decade
2000
CommonsLane Elementary School, Fairfax County Public Schools2025
CommonsInteresting wall patch in a restaurant bathroom2024
CommonsCup of Cheerwine at dinner2024
CommonsBottle and plastic cup of Cheerwine at dinner2024
CommonsSenior living in2019
CommonsPower line cut on a gloomy day2019
CommonsKingstowne branch post office2019
CommonsExtra Space Storage sign in2018
CommonsExtra Space Storage office in2018Nothing in Kingstowne is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Kingstowne has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Huntley in Groveton, 2.7 miles away.
Kingstowne and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (9). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.