Burke's Garden is an upland valley and unincorporated community in Tazewell County, Virginia.
[3] The oval, bowl-like valley (or "cove") is known for its fertile land and was once the bed of an ancient sea.
About 8.5 miles (13.7 km) long and 4 miles (6.4 km) wide, it resembles a large asteroid impact or volcanic crater in satellite photographs and on topographic maps; however, it is actually a dome-shaped geologic up-warp (anticline) that exposed older Ordovician aged limestone which is much more erodible than the younger Silurian sandstone of surrounding ridges.
Burke's Garden was first surveyed in 1748 by a team of surveyors working for local landowner James Patton.
The area is drained by Wolf Creek (a tributary of the New River) which flows out of the geographic bowl in a northeasterly direction.