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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.

Page County, Virginia

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

County Seat: Luray
Year Organized: 1831
Square Miles: 311

Court House:

108 South Court St.
County Administration Building
Luray, VA 22835-1225

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Page is named for Governor of Virginia John Page.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

History

Page County, Virginia formed from Rockingham and Shenandoah Counties, Virginia. [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.]

Page County was named according to most sources, for John Page, revolutionary patriot, congressman, and governor of Virginia from 1802 to 1805. It was formed from Rockingham and Shenandoah counties in 1831. Its area is 316 square miles, and the county seat is Luray.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 314 square miles (813 km²), of which, 311 square miles (806 km²) of it is land and 3 square miles (8 km²) of it (0.95%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

Warren County, Virginia (north)
Shenandoah County, Virginia (west)
Rockingham County, Virginia (south)
Madison County, Virginia (east)
Rappahannock County, Virginia (east)
Greene County, Virginia (east)

Cities and Towns:

- Luray (County Seat)	town	Incorporated Area
- Shenandoah	town	Incorporated Area
- Stanley	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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