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Nokesville is an unincorporated census-designated place (CDP) in southwestern Prince William County, Virginia, that also extends across the county line into Fauquier County.

Nokesville had a population of 1,619 people at the 2020 census, up from 1,354 at the 2010 census and 1,179 at the 2000 census.

The CDP covers about 9.5 square miles of countryside, giving it a low population density of about 171 people per square mile in 2020.

The community is named for Norvel Nokes, an officer in the United States Marine Corps.

Nokesville grew up as the center of a farming community of cattle and dairy farms, and it became a town and intermediate stop on the Orange and Alexandria Railway in 1865.

In the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Nokesville was a center of the German Baptist Brethren religious movement, which became known as the Church of the Brethren.

Passenger train service ended in the 1950s, and Nokesville remains a rural community today, about 30 miles southwest of Washington, D.C., even as the rest of Prince William County has suburbanized.

Nokesville Elementary School, first built in 1929 to serve all grades, moved into a new building in 2014 next to Brentsville District High School on Aden Road, while the Fauquier County side of the Nokesville postal area is served by Kettle Run High School and Greenville Elementary.

Several Nokesville-area properties are listed on the National Register of Historic Places, including The Lawn, the Nokesville Truss Bridge, the Brentsville Historic District, Park Gate, and Pilgrim's Rest.

At the 2000 census, the median income for a household in Nokesville was $63,793, and none of the community's families were living below the poverty line.