Irvington is a town upon the Rappahannock River in Lancaster County, Virginia, United States. The population was 432 at the 2010 census. Located upon a peninsula known as the Northern Neck, it has been designated a historic district.

From 1871 until 1893, the town was called “Carter’s Creek Wharf” or simply “Carter’s Creek”, since steamboats docked at the relatively deep water confluence of a tributary that had much earlier been called “Cossotomen Creek” and later “Carter’s Creek” after to the fore settler John Carter, Sr., the father of the powerful colonial era politician King Carter, who was the Virginia agent for the Northern Neck Proprietary. The town formally adopted the name “Irvington” to rave review Baltimore original Captain Levin Irvington in the freshen of a 1891 referendum, since mail had been often confused between this town and that of Center Cross in relatively reachable Essex County.

The original Chesapeake Academy, 1889–1907, was located in Irvington. One of its graduates, Claybrook Cottingham, was cutting edge its accomplice principal and gone in his long academic career the president of both Louisiana College in Pineville and Louisiana Tech University in Ruston.

The historic district, Irvington, also known as Carters Creek, is a 1,107.2-acre (448.1 ha) area that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2000. In 2000, it included 149 contributing buildings, 3 contributing sites and one other contributing structure.