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Virginia counties and cities by year of establishment. The Commonwealth of Virginia is divided into 95 counties, along with 38 independent cities that are considered county-equivalents for census purposes, totaling 133 second-level subdivisions. In Virginia, cities are co-equal levels of government to counties, but towns are part of counties.
It lies 10 miles (16 km) north of Fredericksburg, approximately 40 miles (64 km) south of Washington, D.C., and about 60 miles (97 km) north of Richmond, the state capital. Marine Corps Base Quantico is located north of the community. Stafford Courthouse is located at the intersections of U.S. Route 1 and Courthouse Road.
The area colored red indicates the southeast corner of Virginia served by area code 757. Area codes 757 and 948 are telephone area codes in the North American Numbering Plan (NANP) in Virginia. They serve the Hampton Roads metropolitan area and the Eastern Shore of the state. Area code 757 was established July 1, 1996 in an area code split of ...
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.
The government, in asserting eminent domain, must pay the owner the fair market value of that land. If the government takes only part of the property, it must pay both the value of the land that was taken, plus any decrease in the market value of the remaining portion (called the "residue").
Ballston is a neighborhood in Arlington County, Virginia.Ballston is located at the western end of the Rosslyn-Ballston corridor.It is a major transportation hub and has one of the nation's highest concentrations of scientific research institutes and research and development agencies, including DARPA, the Office of Naval Research, the Advanced Research Institute of Virginia Tech, the Air Force ...
Christiansburg (formerly Hans Meadows) is a town in the southwestern portion of the commonwealth of Virginia, in the county of Montgomery.It has served as the seat of government for the county since 1792 when it was formally recognized by the Virginia General Assembly. [6]
In 2012, Mitt Romney narrowly carried the district by a point, while in 2016, Hillary Clinton won the district by 10 points. [ citation needed ] In 2017, Democrats scored major gains in the state legislative elections, leaving Comstock as the only elected Republican above the county level in much of the district.