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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.

Patrick County, Virginia

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

County Seat: Stuart
Year Organized: 1791
Square Miles: 483

Court House:

P.O. Box 466
County Courthouse
Stuart, VA 24171-0466

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Patrick is named for American Revolutionary Patrick Henry.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

History

Patrick County, Virginia formed from Henry County. Legislative enactment in 1790. Organized in 1791. [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.]

Patrick County, like Henry County, was named for Patrick Henry. It was formed from Pittsylvania and Henry County in 1790. Its area is 469 square miles, and the county seat is Stuart.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the clllounty has a total area of 486 square miles (1,258 km²), of which, 483 square miles (1,251 km²) of it is land and 3 square miles (7 km²) of it (0.56%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

Carroll County, Virginia - west
Floyd County, Virginia - northwest
Franklin County, Virginia - northeast
Henry County, Virginia - east
Stokes County, North Carolina - south
Surry County, North Carolina - southwest

Cities and Towns:

- Stuart (County Seat)

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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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