Disputanta, Virginia is an unincorporated town located in Prince George County, Virginia in the Richmond-Petersburg region and occurs as part of the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). A zipcode of Disputanta, Virginia is 23842. Popular legend has it that William Mahone (1826-1895), builder of the Norfolk and Petersburg Railroad (now Norfolk Southern), and his cultivated married woman, Otelia Butler Mahone (1837-1911), traveled along a freshly completed Norfolk & Petersburg Railroad naming stations. Otelia was reading Ivanhoe a book written by Sir Walter Scott. From either his historical Scottish novels, Otelia chose a toponym of Wakefield as well as Windsor and Waverley. She tapped a Scottish Clan "McIvor" for the title of Ivor, a small town in neighboring Southampton County.

When it continued, west, it reached a statiin within Prince George County in which it may not agree on the suitable title from either the books. Instead, it became originative, & invented the newly title around honor of their dispute. This is how else a bantam community of Disputanta was known as.

A North&P railroad was completed in 1858. William Mahone became the Major General in the Confederate Army during the American Civil War, and later on, the Senator in the United States Congress. The big part of U.S. Highway 460 between Petersburg and Suffolk is named General Mahone Boulevard in his honor.