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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.

Pulaski County, Virginia

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

County Seat: Pulaski
Year Organized: 1839
Square Miles: 321

Court House:

143 Third Street, NW, Suite 1
County Administration Building
Pulaski, VA 24301-4900

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Pulaski is named for Kazimierz Pulaski, Polish military strategist who assisted the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War.

Demographics:

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County History

Pulaski County, Virginia formed from Montgomery and Wythe Counties. Wythe County also contributed a small portion between 1861 and 1862. [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.]

Pulaski County was named for Casimir Pulaski, the Polish patriot who served in the American army during the revolutionary war and who was killed during the siege of Savannah in 1779. It was formed from Montgomery and Wythe counties in 1839. Its area is 333 square miles, and the county seat is Pulaski.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 330 square miles (854 km²), of which, 321 square miles (830 km²) of it is land and 9 square miles (23 km²) of it (2.74%) is water.

Pulaski County is the site of Claytor Lake State Park, which is located on Claytor Lake, a 4,500 acre, 21-mile long man made lake on the New River created for a hydroelectric project of Appalachian Power Company. It is named for W. Graham Claytor (1886-1971) of Roanoke, Virginia, a vice president of Appalachian Power and supervised construction of the dam and creation of the lake.

Neighboring Counties:

Bland County, Virginia - northwest
Giles County, Virginia - north
Montgomery County, Virginia - northeast
Radford, Virginia - northeast
Floyd County, Virginia - southeast
Carroll County, Virginia - south
Wythe County, Virginia - southwest, west

Cities and Towns:

- Dublin	town	Incorporated Area
- Pulaski (County Seat)	town	Incorporated Area

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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."