Dooms, VA

Dooms is an Augusta County census-designated place in the Staunton–Waynesboro micropolitan area, with 1,279 residents in the 2020 census. The community sits along the South River near Waynesboro, and its current local map is shaped by county facilities rather than a separate town government. Dooms Crossing provides river access for fishing, tubing, and boating, while the Dooms Community Center is at 214 Dooms Crossing Road. The river-access project grew out of restoration work connected to the former DuPont facility and became Augusta County's first river access point.

Waynesboro supplies the nearby city setting, while Augusta County handles the wider school, recreation, and service network. County recreation also ties Dooms to nearby Crimora Park, where a South River access site sits alongside picnic shelters, trails, playgrounds, and fields. Dooms is a small South River community whose clearest landmarks are a road crossing, community center, and river edge, with the Shenandoah Valley cities close by for larger everyday errands and regional connections.