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At a higher level, large areas of Virginia were split off to form new states, transferred as state boundaries were clarified, or came under the administration of the federal government. Virginia has 95 counties, 38 independent cities, and 190 incorporated towns. There are also hundreds of unincorporated places in Virginia with their own identities.
Old Rappahannock County became extinct in 1692 when it was split to create Essex and Richmond counties. Rappahannock River: 7,414: 267 sq mi (692 km 2) Richmond County: 159: Warsaw: 1692: From the original Rappahannock County, better known as Old Rappahannock County, which was split to form Richmond and Essex counties.
Roads of Tennessee in 1795. European settlers began arriving in the Watauga, Nolichucky, and Holston river valleys in the late 1760s and early 1770s, most migrating from Virginia via the Great Valley, although a few were believed to have been Regulators fleeing North Carolina after their defeat at the Battle of Alamance.
1855 J. H. Colton Company map of Virginia that predates the West Virginia partition by seven years.. Numerous state partition proposals have been put forward since the 1776 establishment of the United States that would partition an existing U.S. state or states so that a particular region might either join another state or create a new state.
Residents of Nye County, mainly in Pahrump and Tonopah, have pushed as recently as 2001 for a north–south county split, perhaps with the northern portion merging with Esmeralda County. While laws making it easier to form new counties have passed since then, this split has not occurred. [38]
The northwestern counties of Virginia, represented by the Restored Government of Virginia in Wheeling, were split from the rest of Virginia and admitted to the Union as the thirty-fifth state, West Virginia. [an] [265] [264] The Restored Government of Virginia was relocated to Alexandria. August 5, 1863
Kentucky County, Virginia (1777–1780) land that later became the state of Kentucky in 1792; Lower Norfolk County (Colonial Virginia) (in 1691, divided into Norfolk County, Virginia and Princess Anne County, Virginia) Nansemond County, Virginia became independent city of Nansemond in 1972; merged with independent city of Suffolk in 1974
The 100 county equivalents in the U.S. territories are not on this map. There are 3,244 counties and county equivalents in the United States. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] [ a ] The 50 states of the United States are divided into 3,007 political subdivisions of states called counties . [ 3 ]