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The Commonwealth of Virginia is divided into 95 counties and 39 independent cities, which are considered county-equivalents for census purposes.

Goochland County, Virginia

Goochland County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

County Seat: Goochland
Year Organized: 1727
Square Miles: 284

Court House:

P.O. Box 10
County Courthouse
Goochland, VA 23063-0010

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Goochland is named for William Gooch, a lieutenant governor of Virginia during the colonial era.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

History

Goochland County, Virginia formed from Henrico County. Legislative enactment in 1727. Organized in 1728. [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.]

Goochland County was named for Sir William Gooch, lieutenant governor of Virginia from 1727 to 1749. It was formed from Henrico County in 1728. Its area is 289 square miles, and the county seat is Goochland.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 290 square miles (751 km²), of which, 284 square miles (737 km²) of it is land and 6 square miles (14 km²) of it (1.92%) is water. Goochland County is drained by the James River.

Neighboring Counties:

Cumberland County, VA to the south
Fluvanna County, VA to the west
Hanover County, VA to the northeast
Henrico County, VA to the east
Louisa County, VA to the north
Powhatan County, VA to the south

Cities and Towns:

- Columbia	town	Incorporated Area
- Goochland (County Seat)
- Richmond	city	Incorporated Area

County Resources:

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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, act locally."

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