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  2. List of place names of French origin in the United States

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    Petit Jean ("Little John" named after a French sailor on the Arkansas River) Pollard; Prairie County ("prairie, meadow") Saline County [35] Sans Souci (literally without concern) Segur (French city) Sevier County; Smackover (Anglicization of chemin couvert, "covered way") [34] Soudan; St. Francis County; Terre Noire (black earth) [35] Terre ...

  3. List of cities and counties in Virginia - Wikipedia

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    Formed from Botetourt, Roanoke, Giles, and Monroe (in present-day West Virginia) Counties: Robert Craig, U.S. Representative from Virginia 4,843: 330 sq mi (855 km 2) Culpeper County: 047: Culpeper: 1749: Culpeper County was established in 1749 from Orange County, Virginia. Thomas Colepeper, 2nd Baron Colepeper, colonial proprietary governor ...

  4. National Register of Historic Places listings in Halifax ...

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    This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Halifax County, Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map. [1]

  5. Mitchell Map - Wikipedia

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    The Mitchell Map. The Mitchell Map is a map made by John Mitchell (1711–1768), which was reprinted several times during the second half of the 18th century. The map, formally titled A map of the British and French dominions in North America &c., was used as a primary map source during the Treaty of Paris for defining the boundaries of the newly independent United States.

  6. List of rivers of Virginia - Wikipedia

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    New River drainage basin. Kanawha River (WV) New River. Bluestone River; East River; Wolf Creek; Walker Creek. Little Walker Creek; Kimberling Creek; Sinking Creek; Little River (New River tributary) Pine Creek (Floyd County, Virginia) West Fork Little River; Peak Creek; Big Reed Island Creek. Cripple Creek; Crooked Creek. Beaverdam Creek ...

  7. Administrative divisions of Virginia - Wikipedia

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    While special districts exist in Virginia, they are generally less important than in other states. As of June 2012, Virginia had 193 special-district governments, as well as numerous special agencies, areas, and districts that were subordinate to the state or to a county, city, or town government.

  8. Category:Rivers of Virginia by county - Wikipedia

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    This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Rivers of Virginia. ... Rivers of Lee County, Virginia (3 P) Rivers of Loudoun County, Virginia (7 P)

  9. Piedmont region of Virginia - Wikipedia

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    The Piedmont region of Virginia is a part of the greater Piedmont physiographic region which stretches from the falls of the Potomac, Rappahannock, and James Rivers to the Blue Ridge Mountains. The region runs across the middle of the state from north to south, expanding outward to a width of nearly 190 miles at the border with North Carolina .