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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.

Richmond County, Virginia

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

County Seat: Warsaw
Year Organized: 1692
Square Miles: 192

Court House:

P.O. Box 1000
County Courthouse
Warsaw, VA 22572-1000

Etymology - Origin of County Name

Richmond is named for either Richmond borough of Surrey, England or for the Duke of Richmond, probably specifically Charles Lennox, 1st Duke of Richmond and Lennox, an illegitimate son of Charles II.

Demographics:

County QuickFacts: Census Bureau Quick Facts

History

Richmond County, Virginia formed from (Old) Rapphannock County (extinguished). [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.]

Richmond County was named either for Richmond Borough in Surrey, England, or for the late-seventeenth-century duke of Richmond. It was formed from Old Rappahannock County in 1692. Its area is 203 square miles, and the county seat is Warsaw.

Geography

According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 216 square miles (560 km²), of which, 191 square miles (496 km²) of it is land and 25 square miles (65 km²) of it (11.52%) is water.

Neighboring Counties:

Westmoreland County, Virginia - north
Northumberland County, Virginia - east
Lancaster County, Virginia - southeast
Essex County, Virginia - southwest

Cities and Towns:

- Warsaw (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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