Breaks, VA

Breaks is a small unincorporated community and census-designated place located mostly in Buchanan County, Virginia, United States. The 2020 census counted 144 residents. A small portion of the CDP is in Dickenson County. Breaks is located very close to the Kentucky border and is east of Breaks Interstate Park. Russell Fork, a popular whitewater rafting stream. Willowbrook Country Club, a nine-hole golf course. Breaks's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider Virginia setting. The local scoop is how Breaks's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet. Breaks gets its name in reference to the "break" in Pine Mountain, a mountain range that spans the Kentucky-Virginia border and ends near the community of Breaks.