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Irvington is an incorporated town on Carter's Creek near the Rappahannock River in Lancaster County, on Virginia's Northern Neck peninsula.

From 1871 until 1893 the town was called Carter's Creek Wharf, or simply Carter's Creek, because steamboats docked at the deep-water confluence of the creek named for early settler John Carter, Sr.

The town formally adopted the name Irvington after an 1891 referendum honoring Baltimore native Captain Levin Irvington, in part because its mail was often confused with Center Cross in nearby Essex County.

Irvington thrived as a steamboat town in the 1890s and early 1900s, but a fire destroyed much of the town in 1917 and the end of the steamboat era shrank it.

The 2020 census counted 474 people in Irvington, up from 432 in 2010 but well below its 673 residents in 2000.

According to the 2020 census, Irvington had 368 housing units, of which 248 were occupied, and its median household income was $118,750.

The whole town is a designated historic district: the 1,107.2-acre Irvington historic district was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000 with 149 contributing buildings.

Irvington is the home of The Tides Inn, the waterfront resort entrepreneur E.A. Stephens opened on July 15, 1947, on a 25-acre farm he and his wife had bought in 1945 for $5,000.

The Steamboat Era Museum on King Carter Drive tells the history of the steamboats that traveled the Chesapeake Bay and stopped at Irvington.

Chesapeake Academy, an independent school for children from age 3 through eighth grade, reopened in Irvington in 1965; its original 1890 schoolhouse on King Carter Drive is now the Hope & Glory Inn.