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History · Belmont

Belmont’s post office opened in 1838, and 1 of its places is on the National Register

More historic than 46% of U.S. towns · #95 of 253 in Virginia. What drives it

Its Register listing is the Belmont. Most of Belmont was built recently: 1% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 2005. Below: maps from 1944 on.

1838first post office
1on the National Register
1%homes built before 1940
1famous people
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Quick answers

How Belmont began

When was Belmont founded?

1838

The Belmont post office opened in 1838, the earliest record of the town by name.

2020 census: 10,268188 years

How historic is Belmont?

B−

More historic than 46% of U.S. towns, on its age, its old homes and the National Register.

What drives the grade ↓
Founding year: the first Belmont post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).
History grade

What drives Belmont’s History grade

On its age, its old homes and the National Register, Belmont is more historic than 46% of U.S. towns, #95 of 253 in Virginia. Its age holds the grade up; its share of homes from before 1940 pulls it down.

B−
HistoryA character grade: shown, never part of Belmont’s overall grade.
Founding era1838, from the first post office: founded 1776–1849, an older era than 75% of U.S. townsA−Homes built before 19401.4% of homes (±1.4) · typical VA town 1.9% · U.S. 8.4%DNational Register1 listing, 2 historic buildings, 2.1 per 10,000 residents · typical VA town 3.6 · U.S. 2.4B−
All U.S. towns we grade (21,289)Ahead of 46%
NewerOlder
Virginia towns of 2,500+ (253)Ahead of 63%

Virginia towns list more on the Register than most of the country (a typical Virginia town has 3.6 per 10,000 residents, the U.S. 2.4), so Belmont’s 2.1 sits near the middle of its state (43% of Virginia towns have fewer) while its 2 historic buildings outnumber those of 60% of U.S. towns.

How sure. Graded on any two of the three inputs instead, the letter would range from C to B+. The pre-1940 share (±1.4 points) is firm at this size. The founding year is the first post office, not a stated founding date.

Founding year: the first post office (other dates in Quick answers). Homes: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register: National Park Service, May 2026 list; each listing counted once (boundary changes and added documentation belong to their listing), and a historic district counts its contributing buildings. How TownRatings grades history →

What stands out about Belmont’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Belmont are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Deep rootsA post office since 1838: 188 years of Belmont.
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Start Belmont’s collection

The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Belmont’s history is told.

Decades since 1900 with photos
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Timeline

Belmont, 1838 to 1944

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 19th century
  2. 1838Post officeThe Belmont post office opens
  3. 1866Post officeThe Belmont post office closes
  4. 1893Born hereKid Norfolk is born here
  5. 20th century
  6. 1944On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
The story so far

Belmont, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Belmont yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Belmont is a census-designated place (CDP) in Loudoun County, Virginia, United States. As of the 2020 census, Belmont had a population of 10,268. It is 5 miles (8 km) southeast of Leesburg, the Loudoun county seat, and 31 miles (50 km) northwest of Washington, D.C. The Belmont Manor House, built between 1799 and 1802 by a son of Richard Henry Lee, is in the northeast part of the CDP and is now the clubhouse for a gated golf community. The Belmont CDP is situated along the east side of Belmont Ridge Road (State Route 659) between State Route 7 and State Route 267 (the Dulles Toll Road). The CDP extends north to VA 7 and south to include Middlebury Street and the Washington and Old Dominion T…

Its first post office opened in 1838. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 5,966 to 10,268 (+72%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

By decade

Belmont, decade by decade

Today5 recent
2019-09-27 14 28 40 View west along Virginia State Route 7 (Harry Byrd Highway) from the overpass for Virginia State Ro…20192019-09-27 14 28 40 View west along Virginia State Ro…2019-09-27 14 22 35 View east along Virginia State Route 7 (Harry Byrd Highway) from the overpass for Virginia State Ro…20192019-09-27 14 22 35 View east along Virginia State Ro…2019-09-20 16 46 18 View east along Virginia State Route 7 (Harry Byrd Highway) at the exit for Virginia State Route 24…20192019-09-20 16 46 18 View east along Virginia State Ro…2019-09-20 16 45 03 View east along Virginia State Route 7 (Harry Byrd Highway) at the exit for Virginia State Route 90…20192019-09-20 16 45 03 View east along Virginia State Ro…2019-09-20 10 12 06 View west along Virginia State Route 7 (Harry Byrd Highway) at the exit for Virginia State Route 65…20192019-09-20 10 12 06 View west along Virginia State Ro…
On the map

Belmont on the map, 1944 to 1994

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Belmont. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Belmont on the 1944 USGS mapBelmont on the 1952 USGS mapBelmont on the 1968 USGS mapBelmont on the 1972 USGS mapBelmont on the 1984 USGS mapBelmont on the 1994 USGS map1944Leesburg sheet · 1:31,680

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Belmont.

On the National Register

1 historic place in Belmont

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving.

place listed
1
National Historic Landmarks
0
none yet
historic buildings protected
2
each building in a district counts
first listed
1980
Belmont
Belmont
Buildings

Architectural styles listings

Federal1
BelmontFederal

National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Photos from Wikimedia Commons, credited on each place’s page.

Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners, places now gone and burying grounds

Belmont had its own post office from 1838 to 1866.

Belmont
1838–1866
18301930today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Belmont Country ClubBelmont GreeneGraves
Gone or out of use
Belmont Chapelchurch
3cemeteries and burying grounds inside Belmont
African American Burial Ground for the Enslaved at BelmontBelmont ChapelBelmont Plantation

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Ashburn3 historic placesCGoose Creek VillageIts storyD−

Questions about Belmont’s history

What year was Belmont founded?

The Belmont post office opened in 1838, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

How does Belmont rank for history?

Belmont is more historic than 46% of U.S. towns, #95 of 253 in Virginia. The History grade combines the town’s founding era, the share of homes built before 1940 and its National Register listings. It’s a character grade, so it isn’t part of the overall grade. How it works.

What is on the National Register in Belmont?

One place: the Belmont (listed 1980).

How old are the homes in Belmont?

1% of Belmont’s homes were built before 1940 (Census estimate, ±1.4 points), against a typical 1.9% for a Virginia town; the median home was built in 2005.

Memory lane

What the archives can’t tell you, neighbors can.

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Sources

Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

From Wikimedia Commons (5), the National Register of Historic Places (1), Wikidata and Wikipedia for famous people, U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.