Skipwith is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
in old Bluestone Township,
Mecklenburg County,
Virginia
Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a U.S. state, state in the Southeastern United States, Southeastern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States between the East Coast of the United States ...
, United States. It is located between
Chase City and
Clarksville, west-northwest of the county seat at
Boydton. The community was named for local members of the
Skipwith family
Skipwith is a village and civil parish about north-east of Selby and south-east of York in North Yorkshire, England. It was historically in the East Riding of Yorkshire. After the 1974 local government reorganisation Skipwith was in the Sel ...
, related to colonial Virginia Skipwith families which began arriving from English
baronial
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estates in the 1650s. The surname Skipwith is derived from
Old English
Old English ( or , or ), or Anglo-Saxon, is the earliest recorded form of the English language, spoken in England and southern and eastern Scotland in the Early Middle Ages. It developed from the languages brought to Great Britain by Anglo-S ...
"sceap" (sheep) and
Old Norse
Old Norse, also referred to as Old Nordic or Old Scandinavian, was a stage of development of North Germanic languages, North Germanic dialects before their final divergence into separate Nordic languages. Old Norse was spoken by inhabitants ...
"vath" (ford or wading place). One ancient Skipwith coat of arms is blazoned "Argent, three bars Gules, in chief a greyhound courant Sable."
History
Red Fox Farm was listed on the
National Register of Historic Places
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in 1993.
Geography and climate
Skipwith is located at (36.6943070, −78.4908321).
Skipwith is 139 meters (456 feet) above sea level.
Skipwith lies in the
Piedmont
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area of Virginia and has a humid sub-tropical climate generalized by hot, humid summers and cool to chilly winters. The average annual rainfall is 42.7 inches with winter-time snowfall averaging 3.5 inches.
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Demographics
The
ZIP Code Tabulation Area
ZIP Code Tabulation Areas (ZCTAs) are statistical entities developed by the United States Census Bureau for tabulating summary statistics. These were introduced with the Census 2000 and continued with the 2010 Census and 5 year American Community ...
(ZCTA) for Skipwith
ZIP Code, 23968, had an estimated population of 912 in the year 2000, and rose to 1,057 in the year 2010.
Education
Skipwith is the site of the
Bluestone High School
Bluestone High School was a public high school in Skipwith, Virginia, in Mecklenburg County. It was part of the Mecklenburg County Public Schools and officially opened on September 12, 1955. It closed in 2022, consolidating with former rivals ...
"Barons" (1955-2022) and the Bluestone Middle School "Trojans."
References
Sources
* https://www.census.gov/census2000/states/va.html
* http://geonames.usgs.gov/ Feature Detail Report for Skipwith
External links
Bluestone Middle School Skipwith
Bluestone Senior High School Skipwith
{{Mecklenburg County, Virginia
Unincorporated communities in Mecklenburg County, Virginia