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Roanoke County (/ ˈ r oʊ. ə ˌ n oʊ k / ROH-ə-nohk) is a county in the U.S. state of the Commonwealth of Virginia.As of the 2020 census, its population was 96,929. [2] Its county seat is Salem, but the county administrative offices are located in the census-designated place of Cave Spring.
Roanoke (/ ˈ r oʊ. ə ˌ n oʊ k / ROH-ə-nohk) is an independent city in Virginia, United States.It is located in Southwest Virginia along the Roanoke River, in the Blue Ridge range of the greater Appalachian Mountains.
The Roanoke City Council is the governing body of the city of Roanoke, Virginia. Currently, the council has six members, all elected in an at-large manner, and a mayor elected in an individual election. The City Council’s duties are primarily legislative. It also oversees financial decisions the city pursues.
Roanoke County Public Schools is the branch of the government of Roanoke County, Virginia responsible for public K–12 education. Like all public school systems in Virginia , it is legally classified as a school division .
These currently include Fairfax, Franklin, Richmond, and Roanoke. In the past they also included Norfolk and Alexandria, whose counties changed their names, ostensibly to end some of the confusion; as well as Bedford, where a city was surrounded by a county of the same name from 1968 until 2013, when the city reverted to town status.
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The Roanoke Metropolitan Statistical Area is a Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) in Virginia as defined by the United States Office of Management and Budget (OMB). The Roanoke MSA is sometimes referred to as the Roanoke Valley , even though the Roanoke MSA occupies a larger area than the Roanoke Valley.
The Roanoke Valley-Alleghany Regional Commission (RVARC, founded in 1969, is one of 21 Virginia Planning District Commissions. The Regional Commission is not a State Agency, but was established by its member governments through a charter agreement under Virginia law [1] as a political subdivision of the Commonwealth. The Regional Commission ...