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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.

Lee County, Virginia

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

County Seat: Jonesville
Year Organized: 1793
Square Miles: 437

Court House:

P.O. Box 367
County Courthouse
Jonesville, VA 24263-0367

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Lee is named for Governor of Virginia Light Horse Harry Lee.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

History

ILee County, Virginia formed from Russell and Scott Counties. Legislative enactment in 1792. Organized in 1793. Scott County gave only a small portion, probably in 1822-1823, 1837-1836, and 1855-1856. [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.]

Lee County was named Henry "Light Horse Harry" Lee, governor of Virginia from 1791 to 1794. It was formed from Russell County in 1792. Part of Scott County was added in 1823. Its area is 438 square miles, and the county seat is Jonesville.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 437 square miles (1,133 km²), of which, 437 square miles (1,132 km²) of it is land and 0 square miles (0 km²) of it (0.04%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

Harlan County, Kentucky - north
Wise County, Virginia - northeast
Scott County, Virginia - east
Hancock County, Tennessee - south
Claiborne County, Tennessee - south-southwest
Bell County, Kentucky - west

Cities and Towns:

- Jonesville (County Seat)	town	Incorporated Area
- Pennington Gap	town	Incorporated Area
- St. Charles	town	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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