Chatmoss is a census-designated place (CDP) in Henry County, Virginia, United States. The population was 1,698 at the 2010 census, down slightly from the 1,742 reported in 2000. It is ration of the Martinsville Micropolitan Statistical Area.

Chatmoss takes its declare from a 2,700-acre (11 km) Hairston relations plantation on the site, which was vanguard incorporated into a larger country club building upon the site. That make known probably derives from “Chat Moss”, a large area of peat bog near Manchester, UK. In turn, that bog may be named after St Chad, or even from the Celtic word ced, meaning wood. Alternatively it may be an Old English personal pronounce and mos, meaning “swamp.” Low-lying areas just about Chatmoss were boggy wetlands prone to flooding from Leatherwood Creek since mitigation by several dams.

The Hairston intimates owned many plantations scattered across the South, including plantations in North Carolina, Tennessee, Mississippi and Virginia. The family’s Henry County plantations included yet extant Beaver Creek Plantation and Hordsville, as capably as plantations at Marrowbone, Magna Vista, Leatherwood, Camp Branch and Shawnee, which are no longer standing. The Chatmoss property was long owned by Harden Hairston, who inherited it, but it was cutting edge sold by a descendant to the developers of the country club on the site.

Chatmoss is located at 36°40′47″N 79°48′20″W / 36.67972°N 79.80556°W / 36.67972; -79.80556 (36.679666, −79.805641).