Volney, VA, is located in the Town of Volney, a county subdivision of Oswego County, Virginia. The town has a T1 census class code, which indicates an active county subdivision that is not coextensive with a incorporated place. It is home to a total of 2,891 parcels and 31,224 acres of land.
The town is small with houses well spaced apart. The town was famous for seven cheese factories: Volney Cheese Factory, Battle Island Cheese Factory, Loomis Cheese Factory, Druce Cheese Factory, Bristol Hill Cheese Factory, Isaac Hales Cheese Factory, and the famous Battle Island Cheese Factory.
The Volney neighborhood contains more mobile homes than any other neighborhood in the country. It has a mobile home park feel to it, which contributes to the neighborhood's appearance. In addition, Volney has more Irish and French Canadian ancestry than any other neighborhood in the United States.
The town of Volney had sixty-one road districts in 1827 and seventy-four in 1849. It was also served by the Oswego and Syracuse plank road, which was later abandoned. The town has seventy-nine road districts today.
Approximately nine hundred and eighty-nine residents lived in the town of Volney City. Twenty-one percent of the population was under the age of 18 and fourteen percent were over the age of 65. The median age was 38.8%, and the ratio of males to females was 88.9 to every 100 females.