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Virginia Counties
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Virginia Counties
The Commonwealth of Virginia is divided into 95 counties and 39 independent cities, which are
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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
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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:
County QuickFacts:
Census Bureau Quick Facts
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 kmē), of which, 321
square miles (830 kmē) of it is land and 9 square miles (23 kmē) 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:
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- Dublin |
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- Pulaski
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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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