Editing Woodstock, Virginia (section)

==Geography==
Woodstock is located at {{coord|38|52|37|N|78|30|41|W|type:city}} (38.877075, &minus;78.511521).<ref name="GR1">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=April 23, 2011|date=February 12, 2011|title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990}}</ref>

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the town has a total area of 3.2&nbsp;square miles (8.4&nbsp;km<sup>2</sup>), all of it land.

The town is located 11.4 miles (18.3&nbsp;km) southwest of [[Strasburg, Virginia|Strasburg]], 18 miles (29&nbsp;km) southwest of [[Middletown, Virginia|Middletown]], and 31.5 miles southwest of [[Winchester, Virginia|Winchester]].

Woodstock is located along the "Seven Bends" of the North Fork of the Shenandoah River, which are seven significant meanders that are unusually sharp and tightly packed. In 48 miles (77 kilometers) of flow, the river travels only 16 miles (26 kilometers) as the crow flies.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/images/84837/the-sinuous-shenandoah|title=The Sinuous Shenandoah|date=December 5, 2014}}</ref> These large looping turns in the river were in earlier times a significant feature for which the town was known.