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Falls Mills is an unincorporated community and census-designated place along Virginia State Route 102 in Tazewell County, in Virginia's Appalachian southwest, at the mouth of the valley of Mud Fork creek.

Falls Mills takes its name from a mill that stood at a natural dam in the Bluestone River.

The Norfolk and Western Railroad built a second dam across Mud Fork creek, about twenty feet high and several hundred feet long, creating a lake more than a mile long.

Through the mid- to late twentieth century the lake at Falls Mills was a summer resort area with boating, fishing and cabins, and it is still maintained and stocked for fishing today by the Falls Mills Fishing Club.

The community's most notable historical event is the Engagement at Falls Mills, fought at dawn on July 20, 1863, when Confederate cavalry under Major Andrew J. May surprised a Union raiding party led by Lieutenant Colonel Freeman E. Franklin.

Falls Mills' post office opened in 1872, during Tazewell County's coal-boom era.

The community's population was recorded as 300 in 1940, yet Falls Mills did not appear as a census-designated place until the 2020 census.

The 2020 census counted 305 residents in Falls Mills, making its modern population almost identical to its 1940 figure.

Falls Mills sits at an elevation of about 2,320 feet in the mountains of Tazewell County, whose economy was long built on the coal and iron of the Pocahontas coalfield.

Falls Mills is part of the Bluefield, West Virginia–Virginia micropolitan area, and its county, Tazewell County, had 40,429 residents in the 2020 census.