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3 of Prices Fork’s places are on the National Register

Most of Prices Fork was built recently: 7% of its homes predate 1940 and the median home dates from 1981. Below: maps from 1965 on.

3on the National Register
7%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Prices Fork’s past

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

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The story

How Prices Fork came to be

From Wikipedia’s history of Prices Fork.

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Prices Fork is within the area often referred to as the German New River Settlement, Before 1745, German immigrants moved from Pennsylvania and began settling in this region within the Prices Fork-Tom's Creek area near and along the horseshoe bottoms of the New River. They were among the earliest settlers of European descent in the western section of present-day Virginia. Prices Fork received its name from the Price (Preisch) family, early German settlers here, whose land bordered both sides of the road. Prices Fork evolved into a village during the mid-19th century. Portions of the community's buildings are within the Prices Fork Historic District on the National Register of Historic Places.

Text from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.

Timeline

Prices Fork, 1849 to 1965

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

  1. 19th century
  2. 1849Post officeThe Prices Forks post office opens
  3. 20th century
  4. 1908Post officeThe Prices Forks post office closes
  5. 1965On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
By decade

Prices Fork, decade by decade

Today5 recent
Adam Wall House from east2017Adam Wall House from eastMouth of Bobcat Lane2016Mouth of Bobcat LanePrices Fork Historic District2013Prices Fork Historic DistrictJoseph McDonald Farm2013Joseph McDonald FarmEvans House No. 22013Evans House No. 2
On the map

Prices Fork on the map, 1965 to 1983

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

Prices Fork on the 1965 USGS mapPrices Fork on the 1970 USGS mapPrices Fork on the 1983 USGS map1965Blacksburg sheet · 1:24,000

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

On the National Register

3 listings protect 20 historic buildings

The country’s official list of buildings and places worth saving. Boundary changes and added documentation are counted with their listing.

places listed
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National Historic Landmarks
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historic buildings protected
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each building in a district counts
first listed
1989
Adam Wall House
Adam Wall HouseEvans House No. 2Prices Fork Historic District
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Architectural styles listings

Center-Passage Plan2
Hall-Parlor Plan1
Greek Revival1
Foursquare1
Adam Wall HouseHall-Parlor Plan
Evans House No. 2Center-Passage Plan
Prices Fork Historic DistrictGreek Revival

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

Famous people

Famous people close to Prices Fork

Nobody well known was born in Prices Fork itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Henry KingAmerican film director · b. 1886
John B. FloydAmerican politician · b. 1806
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Louis KingAmerican actor and movie director · b. 1898
Sally Miller GearhartAmerican teacher, feminist, science fiction wri… · b. 1931
Patri FriedmanAmerican libertarian activist and theorist of p… · b. 1976
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Shayne GrahamPlayer of American football · b. 1977
Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and burying grounds

Another post office, Prices Forks, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Hamlets and corners on the map
Montgomery Farms
1cemetery inside Prices Fork
Snider

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.

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Questions about Prices Fork’s history

What is on the National Register in Prices Fork?

Three places: the Adam Wall House (listed 1989), the Evans House No. 2 (1989) and the Prices Fork Historic District (1991).

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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). How TownRatings grades history →

From Wikimedia Commons (5), the National Register of Historic Places (3), Wikipedia, 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.