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subdivisions. In Virginia, cities are co-equal levels of government to counties, but towns are part of counties. For some counties, for statistical purposes...55 KB (1,224 words) - 06:43, 5 June 2024
West Virginia has 55 counties. Fifty of them existed at the time of the Wheeling Convention in 1861, during the American Civil War, when those counties seceded...35 KB (1,009 words) - 20:37, 26 April 2024
education in Virginia counties, increasing agricultural yields. After the war, a plaque was dedicated to the "30 glorious dead" from the county who died in...79 KB (5,350 words) - 05:39, 12 June 2024
Arlington County, or simply Arlington, is a county in the U.S. state of Virginia. The county is located in Northern Virginia on the southwestern bank of...131 KB (11,863 words) - 07:53, 28 June 2024
Former counties, cities, and towns of Virginia are those that existed within the English Colony of Virginia or, after statehood, the Commonwealth of Virginia...71 KB (8,836 words) - 18:25, 24 June 2024
Essex, King and Queen, and King William counties. The county was named in Latin for Lieutenant Governor of Virginia Alexander Spotswood who incidentally...35 KB (2,137 words) - 04:01, 13 June 2024
West Virginia in 1863, when several Union-affiliated counties seceded from the state of Virginia during the American Civil War. McDowell County is located...35 KB (3,061 words) - 03:30, 15 June 2024
from five counties Fairfax County and other Northern Virginia counties, cities, and towns. Catholic elementary and middle schools in the county fall under...97 KB (6,353 words) - 11:51, 11 June 2024
counties are coastal. The territory of Westmoreland County encompassed much of what later became the various counties and cities of Northern Virginia...18 KB (1,426 words) - 14:16, 27 April 2024
and Scott counties were combined to form Wise County, named after the last governor of Virginia before the Civil War. The economy of Lee County has been...27 KB (2,047 words) - 08:48, 21 June 2024
borough. Virginia is composed of a mixture of 95 counties and 38 independent cities. Maryland, Missouri and Nevada are each composed entirely of counties, except...327 KB (1,443 words) - 08:25, 27 June 2024
Governor of Virginia at the time. The large county was partitioned in 1761, forming Buckingham and Amherst counties, at which time the county seat was moved...44 KB (3,289 words) - 14:31, 19 June 2024
original Shires of Virginia. It is one of the United States' oldest counties. The City of Richmond was officially part of Henrico County until 1842, when...43 KB (3,712 words) - 02:16, 30 June 2024
highest-income region of Virginia, with several of the highest-income counties in the nation, including three of the ten highest counties for median household...122 KB (10,754 words) - 11:05, 25 June 2024
and several other West Virginia counties are among the counties in the U.S. with the lowest life expectancies. The West Virginia Legislature is bicameral...183 KB (17,931 words) - 00:17, 1 July 2024
Fauquier County /fɔːˈkɪər/ is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 72,972. The county seat is Warrenton...27 KB (1,804 words) - 08:57, 13 June 2024
Monongahela"). Monongalia County was formed in 1776 when Virginia's remote District of West Augusta was divided into three counties: Ohio, Yohogania and Monongalia...25 KB (1,939 words) - 23:53, 4 June 2024
population was 6,270. Bland County was created in 1861 from parts of Wythe, Tazewell, and Giles counties in Virginia. The new county was named in honor of Richard...15 KB (1,167 words) - 22:27, 26 April 2024
West Virginia not exempted from the effects of the Emancipation Proclamation (as Berkeley County and the 48 counties designated as West Virginia had been)...33 KB (2,602 words) - 20:41, 26 April 2024
Hanover County is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 109,979. Its county seat is Hanover. Hanover County is...28 KB (2,074 words) - 22:48, 28 June 2024
- This county, together with the counties of Dinwiddie and Chesterfield, contains the bulk of the Slav farmers in Virginia. The colony was began more than
- comparatively little agriculture. West Virginia lies mostly in the Ohio orbit; all but eight of its counties drain into the Ohio River, and a pressing
- Virginia Beach is a resort city in southeast Virginia on the shores of the Chesapeake Bay and the Atlantic Ocean. Virginia Beach offers the classic beach
- from the county government. Consequently, the governance of all streets and roads resides with the county government, one of only two counties in the state