Locust Grove, VA

Locust Grove is a census-designated place in Shenandoah County, Virginia, set in the northern Shenandoah Valley near Fishers Hill and the valley towns. It is a small community rather than an incorporated town, so its identity comes from the surrounding farm roads, valley ridges, and the county's string of villages. Shenandoah County's historic spine is the Old Valley Pike, today's U.S. Route 11, and the broader landscape is still a mix of fields, wooded slopes, and small crossroads.

The name is easy to mix up with the much larger Locust Grove area in Orange County, Virginia. This Locust Grove is the Shenandoah County CDP at about 38.7089, -78.6478, one of the county's named communities alongside places such as Maurertown, Mount Olive, and Quicksburg. Shenandoah County was formed in 1772, and its early settlement history follows the larger story of movement through the Great Valley. The local scoop is that Locust Grove is a small valley outpost whose exact county label matters more than the shared name.