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A city and county that share a name may be completely unrelated in geography. For example, Richmond County is nowhere near the City of Richmond, and Franklin County is even farther from the City of Franklin. More Virginia counties are named for women than in any other state. [4] Virginia's postal abbreviation is VA and its FIPS state code is 51.
Update per request @ W:WP:GL/MAP Bedford is no longer a city so removing from list: 18:43, 15 September 2009: 1,260 × 585 (742 KB) Soundoftoday: Fit to legal-size paper: 18:36, 15 September 2009: 7,488 × 3,249 (741 KB) Soundoftoday {{Information |Description=Map of Virginia counties and independent cities. David Benbennick made
Lee County landscape near Pennington Gap Mountains near Rose Hill According to the U.S. Census Bureau , the county has a total area of 437 square miles (1,130 km 2 ), of which 436 square miles (1,130 km 2 ) is land and 1.9 square miles (4.9 km 2 ) (0.4%) is water. [ 5 ]
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has designated more than 1,000 statistical areas for the United States and Puerto Rico. [2] These statistical areas are important geographic delineations of population clusters used by the OMB, the United States Census Bureau, planning organizations, and federal, state, and local government entities.
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The first settlement of the Virginia Colony in the future Clarke County was in 1736 by Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron who built a home, Greenway Court, on part of his 5 million acres (20,000 km 2) property, near what is now the village of White Post. White Post was named for the large signpost pointing the way to Lord Fairfax's home.
Washington County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 53,935. [1] Its county seat is Abingdon. [2] Washington County is part of the Kingsport–Bristol–Bristol, TN-VA Metropolitan Statistical Area, which is a component of the Johnson City–Kingsport–Bristol, TN-VA Combined Statistical Area, commonly known as the "Tri-Cities" region ...
Nomini Hall, the Carter family plantation in Westmoreland County, was built in 1730 on land purchased from heirs of Nicholas Spencer by Robert "King" Carter. As originally established by the Virginia colony's House of Burgesses, this area was separated from Northumberland County in 1653 and named for the English county of Westmorland; both counties are coastal. [3]