Ford is an unincorporated community in Dinwiddie County, Virginia, United States. Ford is located on U.S. Route 460 19.2 miles west-southwest of Petersburg. This town was a stop on the Southside Railroad in the mid-nineteenth Century. This became the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad in 1870 and then a line in the Norfolk and Western Railway and now the Norfolk Southern Railway.Ford has a post office with ZIP code 23850.