Welcome to Peach Grove ...

So far, we found very little information about Peach Grove. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1>

We've added Peach Grove to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Peach Grove - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Peach Grove, please Contact Us.

While we don't have the exact location of Peach Grove , we believe that it would have been located within present day Fairfax County<2>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Peach Grove, you might consider that their post office opened in 1851.

A typical abbreviation for Peach Grove: Peach Grv.

Time Zone: The area where Peach Grove was located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

If Peach Grove still existed, it would have been in the (703) and (571)<3> area codes.

Websites for Peach Grove ...

Chamber of Commerce: www.fccc.org/

Although we don't have any websites that are specific to Peach Grove, the following might be of interest:

Communities Also Named Peach Grove ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are two Virginia communities named Peach Grove: This one is located in Fairfax County and the other is located in Rockingham County.

Beyond Virginia, there are 6 communities that are also named Peach Grove - they are located in Alabama (2), Kansas (2) and Kentucky.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Peach Grove.

Adding Peach Grove to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Peach Grove in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Peach Grove was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

From that list, the Peach Grove post office opened in 1851.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Peach Grove.

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for Fairfax County: www.co.fairfax.va.us/

The official website for State of Virginia: https://www.virginia.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>	We use the term 'Historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was significantly larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable. If you can provide us with more specific information about Peach Grove, please let us know so that we can improve our accuracy.
<2>	If you're interested in how the shape of Virginia's counties, including Fairfax, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<3>	Area code (571) is an overlay for area code (703).
<4>	A copy of their list with background information can be found at: https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/