A 117-address waterfront community on Dogue Creek, recorded in three sections between 1974 and 1978 on the former Seven Oaks estate.
Mount Vernon on the Potomac sits at the Dogue Creek end of the Mount Vernon area, recorded in three sections between 1974 and 1978 — Section 1 at Deed Book 4405, page 455 — on land that had been the Seven Oaks estate. The association dates the community to 1976. Fairfax County lists 117 addresses, 94 of them on Mount Vernon Circle and 19 on Mount Vernon Landing; the association itself counts 113 homes, a small gap worth knowing about before you compare per-home figures. The median lot is 0.46 acre. The county records the plat as MT VERNON ON THE POTOMAC, and it is a different place from the 1919 "Vernon on the Potomac" plat over in 22308 — a distinction that matters when you or an appraiser are pulling comparables by subdivision name.
This is not one of the loosely governed postwar subdivisions further north in the area. MVOP Citizens Association Inc. administers recorded protective covenants that include architectural control, so exterior changes — additions, siding, fencing, outbuildings — run through the association as well as through Fairfax County. Ask for the resale packet early. The covenants and any architectural guidelines are in it, and they are the practical limit on what can be changed after settlement, which is a different question from what the county zoning would allow on its own.
As of August 2026 the assessment is $1,700 per lot per year. Unusually for a community of this size, it bundles more than grounds upkeep: it covers the marina and bathhouse and weekly trash, recycling and yard-waste collection, all of which are separately contracted in most of the surrounding neighborhoods. Marina slip and storage fees run from $60 to $800 depending on what is being kept, and those are charged on top of the assessment rather than inside it. Confirm the current figures against the association's own statement at the time of contract rather than against a listing sheet.
The community owns a waterfront park and marina on Dogue Creek with floating docks, a boat ramp, a jet-ski platform and a tennis court. Dogue Creek runs out to the Potomac, so this is a working small-boat facility rather than an ornamental one, and it is the single feature that most separates these 117 addresses from the inland streets around them. Use is a function of lot ownership plus the marina fee schedule — not something an address confers by itself.
The creek edge lies within a Chesapeake Bay Resource Protection Area, and part of the community is near mapped FEMA flood hazard. In practice, dock, bulkhead and shoreline work requires Fairfax County approval and a Water Quality Impact Assessment, and land disturbance inside the buffer is restricted, so any waterfront project should be planned around review time. Working in the other direction, the community is on public sewer throughout, which removes the septic-capacity question that governs additions and bedroom counts on parts of the county's unsewered land. There is no historic overlay here and no airport noise contour.
Addresses here are served by Washington Mill Elementary School, Walt Whitman Middle School and Mount Vernon High School — the 22309-side pyramid described on our Mount Vernon community page. Fairfax County Public Schools approved boundary changes in January 2026 that took effect for the 2026-27 school year, so confirm a specific address in the FCPS boundary locator rather than relying on a subdivision rule of thumb. As across this whole area, the mail reads "Alexandria, VA" but the jurisdiction is unincorporated Fairfax County, not the City of Alexandria.
Mount Vernon on the Potomac sits within Mount Vernon — that guide covers the zoning, permitting and site constraints that apply across the wider area.
Artur can confirm what applies to a specific address here — lot, zoning, association documents and school assignment — before you write an offer.
