![]() This reflects the the boundary of the City of Falls Church having changed very slightly in the last few years: the middle school and the high school for the City of Falls Church had been in Fairfax County (adjacent to the city boundary). (For those who are familiar with Falls Church but haven’t looked at these boundaries in a while, you’ll note the 22043 zip code sticking out. But then what do you call the surrounding area? This is a tidy solution in that it is a formal boundary. On the other extreme, you could strictly define Falls Church as the City, whose boundaries are shown in green above. Map from Fairfax County GIS with annotations by the author. I found a map of the Town of Falls Church here and georeferenced it onto a current map: So, from 1875 to 1887, the Town of Falls Church included what is basically today’s City, along with South Falls Church and East Falls Church. It was part of the Town of Falls Church (while simultaneously within a county, which changed designations as Virginia ceded its portion to, then retroceded it back from, the District of Columbia). As a result, over one-third of the land that made up the town was retroceded to the County.”Įast Falls Church, which makes up the western corner of Arlington County, has its own interesting history. According to the City’s website, “In 1890, the Town Council of Falls Church voted to cede its other majority African American districts to Fairfax County. In 1887, it retroceded “South Falls Church” back to Fairfax (I touched on this in a 2014 post about the naming of West Falls Church). In 1875, Falls Church gained township status within Fairfax. Map of the City of Falls Church from Google Maps.īut when people say “Falls Church,” they have always meant more than the current boundaries of the city (in fact, neither the East Falls Church nor West Falls Church Metro stations are in the City of Falls Church). ![]()
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