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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.
ZIP Codes: 22405, 22406, 22134, 22554, 22556. ... and Northern Virginia, Stafford County is in a gridlock and has one of the worst traffic situations in Northern ...
Additionally, in 1979, the Virginia General Assembly adopted legislation that allowed any county meeting certain population and density standards to petition the local circuit court to declare the county permanently immune from annexation by any city with over 100,000 in population. In 1981, Chesterfield County and several other counties in the ...
ZIP codes: 22554, 22556. Area code: 540: Stafford, also known as Stafford Courthouse, is a census-designated place in and the county seat of Stafford County, Virginia
Albemarle County is a United States county located in the Piedmont region of the Commonwealth of Virginia. Its county seat is Charlottesville, which is an independent city entirely surrounded by the county. [2] Albemarle County is part of the Charlottesville Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2020 census, the population was 112,395. [3]
The county was established in 1772 as 'Dunmore County' for Virginia Colonial Governor John Murray, 4th Earl of Dunmore. Woodstock was designated the county seat. Dunmore was Virginia's last royal governor, and was forced from office during the American Revolution. During the war (1778), the rebels renamed the county 'Shenandoah.'
Frederick County is located in the Commonwealth of Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 91,419. [1] Its county seat is Winchester. [2] The county was formed in 1743 by the splitting of Orange County.
Blacksburg is an incorporated town in Montgomery County, Virginia, United States, with a population of 44,826 at the 2020 census.Blacksburg and the surrounding county is dominated economically and demographically by the presence of Virginia Tech.