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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.

Nottoway County, Virginia

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

County Seat: Nottoway
Year Organized: 1789
Square Miles: 315

Court House:

P.O. Box 92
County Courthouse
Nottoway, VA 23955-0092

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Nottway is named for the Nadowa Native American group

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

History

Nottoway County, Virginia formed from Amelia County. Legislative enactment in 1788. Organized in 1789. [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.]

Nottoway County was named for the Nadowa Indian tribe. The word nadowa, anglicized to nottoway, means snake, or enemy. The county was formed from Amelia County in 1788. Its area is 308 square miles, and the county seat is Nottoway.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 316 square miles (819 km²), of which, 315 square miles (815 km²) of it is land and 1 square miles (4 km²) of it (0.46%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

Amelia County, VA to the north
Brunswick County, VA to the south
Dinwiddie County, VA to the east
Lunenburg County, VA to the south
Prince Edward County, VA to the west

Cities and Towns:

- Blackstone	town	Incorporated Area
- Burkeville	town	Incorporated Area
- Crewe	town	Incorporated Area
- Nottoway (County Seat)

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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