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Fairfax County, Virginia
Fairfax County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education
County Seat: Fairfax
Year Organized: 1742
Square Miles: 396 |
Court House: 12000 Government Center Parkway
County Government Center
Fairfax, VA 22035-0066
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Etymology - Origin of County Name
Fairfax is named for Thomas Fairfax, 6th Lord Fairfax of Cameron.
Demographics:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
History
Fairfax County, Virginia formed from Prince William and Loudoun Counties. Loudoun gave only a small portions,
possibly at a later date. It appears that there were further boundary changes ongoing between 1845 and 1847. [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.]
Fairfax County was named for Thomas Fairfax, sixth baron Fairfax of Cameron, proprietor of the Northern Neck. It was
formed from Prince William County in 1742. Its area is 410 square miles, and the county seat is Fairfax. According to
the 2000 census, its population is 969,749. Original wills and deeds as well as many other loose papers were destroyed
during the Civil War; deed books for twenty-six of the fifty-six years between 1763 and 1819 are missing.
Neighboring Counties:
- Fairfax County is bounded on the north and southeast by the Potomac River. Across the river to the northeast is
Washington, D.C., across the river to the north is Montgomery County, Maryland, and across the river to the
southeast are Prince George's County, Maryland and Charles County, Maryland. The county is partially bounded on the
north and east by Arlington County and the independent cities of Alexandria and Falls Church. It is bounded on the
west by Loudoun County, and on the south by Prince William County.
Cities and Towns:
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- Alexandria |
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- Clifton |
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- Fairfax
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- Falls Church |
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- Herndon |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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- Vienna |
town |
Incorporated Area |
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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