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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.

Louisa County, Virginia

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

County Seat: Louisa
Year Organized: 1742
Square Miles: 498

Court House:

P.O. Box 160
County Courthouse
Louisa, VA 23093-0160

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Louisa is named for Princess Louise, daughter of George II of Great Britain.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

History

Louisa County, Virginia formed from Hanover County. Boundary changes seem to have continued occurring from 1836 to 1838 and again from 1876 to 1877. [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.]

Louisa County was named for Louisa, a daughter of George II. It was formed from Hanover County in 1742. Its area is 514 square miles, and the county seat is Louisa.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 511 square miles (1,323 km²), of which, 497 square miles (1,288 km²) of it is land and 14 square miles (35 km²) of it (2.67%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

Albemarle County, VA to the west
Fluvanna County, VA to the southwest
Goochland County, VA to the south
Hanover County, VA to the east
Orange County, VA to the north
Spotsylvania County, VA to the northeast

Cities and Towns:

- Louisa (County Seat)	town	Incorporated Area
- Mineral	town	Incorporated Area

County Resources:

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Online High Schools

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, act locally."

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