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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.

Prince George County, Virginia

Prince George County History, Geography, Demographics, Cities and Towns, and Education

County Seat: Prince George
Year Organized: 1703
Square Miles: 266

Court House:

P.O. Box 68
County Courthouse
Prince George, VA 23875-0068

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Prince George is named for Prince George of Denmark.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

History

Prince George County, Virginia formed from Charles City County. Legislative enactment in 1702. Organized in 1703. [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.]

Prince George County was named for Prince George of Denmark, husband of Queen Anne of England. It was formed from Charles City County in 1702. Its area is 298 square miles, and the county seat is Prince George.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 282 square miles (730 km²), of which, 266 square miles (688 km²) of it is land and 16 square miles (42 km²) of it (5.76%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

Petersburg, Virginia - northwest
Chesterfield County, Virginia - northwest
Hopewell, Virginia - northwest
Charles City County, Virginia - north
Surry County, Virginia - east
Sussex County, Virginia - south
Dinwiddie County, Virginia - west

Cities and Towns:

- Petersburg	city	Incorporated Area
- Prince George (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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