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Campbell County, Virginia
Campbell County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Rustburg
Year Organized: 1782
Square Miles: 504
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Court House: P.O. Box 100
County Courthouse
Rustburg, VA 24588-0100
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
Campbell is named for William Campbell, a militia general in the American Revolutionary War
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Campbell County, Virginia formed from Bedford County. Legislative enactment in 1781. Organized in 1782. [Virginia
Counties: Those Resulting from Virginia Legislation, by Morgan Poitiaux Robinson, originally published as
Bulletin of the Virginia State Library, Volume 9, January, April, July 1916, reprinted 1992 by Genealogical
Publishing Co., Inc., Baltimore, MD.]
Campbell County was named for William Campbell, one of the heroes of the Battle of Kings Mountain in 1780. The
county was formed from Bedford County in 1781. Its area is 511 square miles, and the county seat is Rustburg.
Neighboring Counties:
- Lynchburg, Virginia - north
- Amherst County, Virginia - north
- Appomattox County, Virginia - northeast
- Charlotte County, Virginia - east
- Halifax County, Virginia - southeast
- Pittsylvania County, Virginia - southwest
- Bedford County, Virginia - west
Cities and Towns:
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- Altavista |
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- Brookneal |
town |
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- Lynchburg |
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- Rustburg
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County Resources:
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County Resource Guide
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The history of our nation can be seen as a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names we've given our counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic
features of our country!"
But age, size and colorful names of our counties isn't the only reason to explore counties' role in American history, or the history of county government itself. In fact, the story of county government reflects the larger meanings of American history.
Today's counties are the most flexible, locally responsive and creative governments in the US. They are the most diverse, varying in size, population, geography, and governmental structure. In their politics and policies, they express a 1990's political slogan "Think globally,
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