Madison Heights is a census-designated place (CDP) in Amherst County, Virginia, United States.

Fort Riverview (44AH91 and 44AH195), Galt's Mill Complex, Oak Lawn, and Hanshill are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

24.3% of all households were made up of individuals, and 10.0% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older.

The Central Virginia Training Center is a state education facility in Madison Heights.

Previously it was known as the Virginia State Colony for Epileptics and Feebleminded where forced sterilizations were conducted, 8,300 from 1924 to 1972 on those determined to be "unfit".

[8] Carrie Buck, the plaintiff in the United States Supreme Court case Buck v. Bell, was sterilized after being classified as "feeble-minded", as part of the state's eugenics program while she was a patient at the Colony.