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James City County, Virginia

James City County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

County Seat: Williamsburg
Year Organized: 1634
Square Miles: 143
Court House:

P.O. Box 8784
County Administration
Williamsburg, VA 23187-8784

Etymology - Origin of County Name

James City is named for James I of England.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

County History

James City County, Virginia formed. Original shire. Later, portions gained from New Kent and from York. [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,,, p. 125].

James City County was named for James I. It was one of the eight shires established in 1634. Parts of New Kent and York Counties were added later. Its area is 144.1 square miles, and the county seat is Williamsburg.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 180 sq mi (465 kmē), of which 143 sq mi (370 kmē) is land, and 37 sq mi (95 kmē, or 20.47%) is water. The James City County GIS office specifies the county as being 115,011.9 Acres

James City County straddles two major watersheds, the James River Watershed and the York River Watershed. (Both are sub watersheds of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, which stretches from Pennsylvania to Virginia). Within the James River and York watersheds are eleven sub watersheds: Diascund Creek, Ware Creek, Yarmouth Creek, Gordon Creek, Powhatan Creek, Mill Creek, College Creek, James River, York River, Skiffe's Creek and Chickahominy River.

Neighboring Counties:

  • New Kent County, Virginia - northwest
  • King and Queen County, Virginia - northeast
  • Gloucester County, Virginia - northeast
  • York County, Virginia - east
  • Williamsburg, Virginia - east
  • Newport News, Virginia - southeast
  • Surry County, Virginia - south
  • Charles City County, Virginia - west

Cities and Towns:

- Williamsburg (County Seat) city Incorporated Area

County Resources:

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The history of our nation was a prolonged struggle to define the relative roles and powers of our governments: federal, state, and local. And the names given the counties, our most locally based jurisdictions, reflects the "characteristic features of this 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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