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Hillsboro is a small incorporated town in western Loudoun County, lying in the Hillsboro Gap of Short Hill Mountain, part of Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, where the North Fork of Catoctin Creek breaks through the ridge.

The first record of settlement in the Hillsboro area, then known simply as "the Gap," dates to 1746, and records of twice-monthly Quaker meetings held there date to 1755.

The town was formally established on December 31, 1802, by an act of the Virginia General Assembly, and it was spelled "Hillsborough" until its incorporation in 1880.

Because of its location on Vestal's Gap Road, Hillsboro grew quickly in the early 1800s into one of the leading trade centers of western Loudoun County.

The 2020 census counted just 114 residents in Hillsboro, and the Northern Virginia Regional Commission identifies it as the smallest town in Northern Virginia.

The Hillsboro Historic District was placed on the National Register of Historic Places on May 7, 1979.

On December 28, 2016, the town limits officially tripled to 172 acres, a boundary change that brought the Old Stone School inside the town limits for the first time.

The Old Stone School, built in 1874 as the Locust Grove Academy, now hosts community events, and the Hillsboro Charter Academy, a community-run public charter school, sits adjacent to it.

Hillsboro was the birthplace of Susan Koerner Wright, the mother of aviation pioneers Orville and Wilbur Wright.

In June 2021 Hillsboro completed ReThink9, a roughly $30 million infrastructure project that added two roundabouts on State Route 9, buried the town's overhead utilities, and gave the town a safe municipal drinking-water system for the first time in its history.