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Fairfax County, Virginia Map

Explore Fairfax County, Virginia with this interactive street and satellite map. Browse all 51 cities and towns in Fairfax County below.

Interactive Map of Fairfax County, Virginia

County	Fairfax
State	Virginia (VA)
County Seat	Fairfax
Country	United States of America

Latitude	38.845838
Longitude	-77.257277
Cities & Towns	51
Area Codes	571, 703

About Fairfax County, Virginia

Fairfax County occupies the wedge of land between the Potomac and Occoquan rivers, a geography defined by the slow, silt-heavy drainage of the Piedmont plateau as it descends toward the tidewater. The terrain here holds a persistent humidity that softens the edges of the horizon, blurring the line where the heavy clay soil meets the thick, tangled canopy of oak and tulip poplar. To the east, the river winds with a sluggish, prehistoric gravity, carving deep ravines that trap the evening dampness long after the sun has retreated behind the suburban tree line. This is a landscape of subtle creases, where the drainage basins dictate the flow of modern traffic and the older, quieter movement of groundwater seeking the Chesapeake.

Fairfax County emerged from the colonial frontier as a sprawling parish, carved from the wilderness by royal charter to organize the tobacco planters who pushed westward from the coastal estuaries. The seat of government eventually settled upon a crossroads that served as a natural pivot for the movement of goods and soldiers between the river ports and the interior. During the long, jagged years of the mid-nineteenth century, the land became a contested corridor, its farmsteads and taverns subjected to the grinding machinery of armies that left the fields scarred and the social order permanently altered. The architecture of the older public squares remains, a muted reminder of an era when the county functioned as a distant, agrarian outpost of a budding capital, its administrative heart beating with the slow, deliberate pulse of a local court.

Modern life here moves with a frantic, digitized energy, fueled by the proximity of the federal establishment and the sprawling infrastructure of the global information economy. The character of the place is a dense, layered collision of cultures, where the quiet, lingering scent of boxwood in older gardens competes with the sterile, hum-filled glass of data centers and corporate campuses. At dusk, the light catches the metallic sheen of office park facades, turning the sky a bruised, electric violet that feels entirely distinct from the darker, leaf-strewn shadows of the preserved parklands. People navigate this space with a precise, pragmatic focus, their daily routines dictated by the complex intersections of high-speed transit and the enduring, stubborn geography of the original colonial road network.