Biohazard Cleanup Near Fairfields Timberlake, VA

Timberlake is a census-designated place in Campbell County, Virginia, south of Lynchburg, and is part of the Lynchburg Metropolitan Statistical Area.

Timberlake had a population of 13,267 at the 2020 census, up 8.9% from 12,183 in 2010, with a median age of 38.6 years.

Timberlake covers about 11.3 square miles, of which about 1.12% is water, and it has a humid subtropical climate with hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters.

Timberlake grew around Timber Lake, created when a dam across Buffalo Creek was completed in 1926 as a new subdivision and resort community south of Lynchburg, where the first homes were largely one-room log cabins built from timber cleared to create the lake.

The Timber Lake dam washed out on June 22, 1995, after a rainstorm dropped more than 11 inches of rain, sending a wall of water down Buffalo Creek; the dam was rebuilt two years later.

The private Timber Lake community has been marking the lake's centennial, dating to its original opening in the 1920s as a country retreat for Lynchburg city dwellers.

Timberlake is served locally by the Brookville-Timberlake Volunteer Fire Department, whose firefighters carried out rescues during the 1995 dam-break flooding on the U.S. 460 bridge over Buffalo Creek.