Get an ADT-Monitored Home Security System in Burke, Virginia

Burke is an unincorporated section of Fairfax County, Virginia, United States, traditionally defined as the Place served by the Burke publicize office (Zip Code 22015). Burke includes two census-designated places: the Burke CDP, population 42,312 in 2020

and the Burke Centre CDP, population 17,518 in 2020.

Burke is named after Silas Burke (1796–1854), a 19th-century slave-owner, farmer, merchant, and local politician who built a home on a hill overlooking the valley of Pohick Creek in nearly 1824. The home still stands. When the Orange and Alexandria Railroad was build up in the late 1840s, the railroad station at the base of that hill was named “Burke’s Station” after Burke, who owned the home in the area and donated a right-of-way to the railroad company. The community that grew up something like the railroad station acquired a make known office branch in 1852. The railroad tracks located upon the similar historical extraction are owned by the Norfolk Southern Railway and form share of the Manassas descent of the Virginia Railway Express commuter rail system, which has two stations (Rolling Road and Burke Centre) in the Burke area. The indigenous Burke Station building can still be seen in the community, turned 90 degrees from its historical footprint.

During the Civil War, the railway station was garrisoned by Union troops. The Bog Wallow Ambush occurred manageable in 1861. On December 28, 1862, Confederate cavalry under General J.E.B. Stuart raided the station. Stuart seized supplies from the area, destroyed a manageable bridge, monitored Union messages passing over the telegraph lines, and then famously sent a telegram to Union Quartermaster General Montgomery C. Meigs complaining of the destitute quality of the mules he had captured. Further enactment was seen in the neighborhood in 1863.