St. Charles, VA

St. Charles is a census-designated place and former town in Lee County, Virginia, United States. The 2020 census counted 72 residents. A post office was established at Saint Charles in 1908. The town was incorporated by the Lee County, Virginia Circuit Court on January 10, 1914. A newcomer can read St. Charles through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, St. Charles comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. The town straddles a narrow hollow along Straight Creek, just east of the Kentucky –Virginia state line. St. Charles is surrounded on all sides by rugged hills, including Lone Mountain to the northeast, and Little Black Mountain to the northwest.