{{Short description|Unincorporated community in Virginia, United States}} {{Use American English|date=July 2025}} {{Use mdy dates|date=July 2023}} {{Infobox settlement |official_name = Sutherland, Virginia |settlement_type = Unincorporated community |nickname = |motto =

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'''Sutherland''' is an unincorporated community in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, United States.<ref name="gnis" /> Sutherland is located on U.S. Route 460, {{convert|9|mi|km}} west-southwest of Petersburg.

This town was a stop on the Southside Railroad in the mid-nineteenth century. This became the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad in 1870 and then a line in the Norfolk and Western Railway and now the Norfolk Southern Railway.<ref Name=Bright2015>{{cite web |url=http://www.csa-railroads.com/South_Side.htm |title=Confederate Railroads - South Side|last=Bright |first=David L. |date=2015 |website=Confederate Railroads |publisher= |access-date=2018-01-25 |quote=}}</ref> Sutherland was the location of the Civil War Battle of Sutherland's Station on April 2, 1865 during the Appomattox Campaign.

==Notable person==

Mathematician Gladys West was born in Sutherland.<ref name="Kinkade2019">{{Cite web |url=https://www.gideons.org/blog/dr_gladys_west |title=Destination on Right: the Influence of Dr. Gladys West |last=Kinkade|first=Daniel |website=Gideons International |date=2019-05-03 |access-date=2019-05-29 }}</ref>

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Category:Unincorporated communities in Dinwiddie County, Virginia Category:Unincorporated communities in Virginia

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