ABOUT

Great Falls is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The population as of the 2010 census was 15,427, an increase of 80.5% from the 2000 census. CNN Money ranked Great Falls first in the nation on its list of "top earning towns" in 2011.Early on, the village was known as Forestville (unofficially, since there was already a Forestville with a Post Office), but was named Great Falls in 1955. According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 25.66 square miles (66.5 km²) of which 25.42 square miles (65.8 km²) is land and 0.24 square miles (0.62 km²) is water.