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  1. May 23, 2024 · 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. In Virginia, cities are co-equal levels of government to counties, but towns are part of counties. For some counties, for statistical ...

    • Southampton County

      In August 1831, an enslaved preacher named Nat Turner led a...

    • Lee County

      Lee County, Virginia – Racial and ethnic composition Note:...

    • Highland County

      Highland County is a county located in the Commonwealth of...

    • Campbell County

      Campbell County is a United States county situated in the...

    • Mathews County

      History. During Virginia's colonial era, the area that later...

  2. 2 days ago · Virginia, constituent state of the U.S., one of the original 13 colonies. It is bordered by Maryland to the northeast, the Atlantic Ocean to the southeast, North Carolina and Tennessee to the south, Kentucky to the west, and West Virginia to the northwest. The state capital is Richmond.

  3. 2 days ago · Roanoke ( / ˈroʊ.əˌnoʊk / ROH-ə-nohk) is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. It is located in Southwest Virginia along the Roanoke River, in the Blue Ridge range of the greater Appalachian Mountains. Roanoke is approximately 50 miles (80 km) north of the Virginia– North Carolina border and 250 miles ...

  4. 2 days ago · Fredericksburg is an independent city in Virginia, United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 27,982. [4] It is 48 miles (77 km) south of Washington, D.C., and 53 miles (85 km) north of Richmond.

  5. May 3, 2024 · Background. Title Page of A Declaration of the State of the Colony and Affaires in Virginia. Victims of the 1622 Indian Attacks. Scholars understand Indigenous communities of Virginias colonial and precolonial era with the help of three types of sources: historical, archaeological, and oral.

  6. 1 day ago · The county seat is Fairfax; however, because it is an independent city under Virginia law, the city of Fairfax is not part of the county. The county is part of the Northern Virginia region and forms part of the suburban ring of Washington, D.C., the nation's capital.

  7. May 3, 2024 · The following list includes all governors, lieutenant governors, presidents of the Council, and other officials who are known to have served as chief executive of Virginia, whether by appointment, by election, or as temporary substitutes for the regularly chosen executives. The list includes those who held the royal commission as governor but ...

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