Owens, Virginia

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Owens is a small unincorporated crossroads community located in King George County, Virginia at the intersection of Dahlgren Road, Windsor Drive, and Owens Drive. Virginia State Routes 218 and 206 meet at this intersection, with 206 going east towards U.S. Highway 301 and Dahlgren, 218 going south towards US 301 and Colonial Beach and 206 and 218 joined together going west towards Arnold's Corner and Fredericksburg.

Owens comprises under a dozen houses and businesses along Dahlgren Road, including what was once Peyton's Market and the Owens Post Office, now an antiques store, as well as a small community of houses along Owens Drive, and the cemetery of Oakland Baptist Church which is on the western corner of Dahlgren Road and Windsor Drive. The church was located there until the 1970s, when it moved to its present location on US 301.