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e. Virginia counties and cities by year of establishment. The Commonwealth of Virginia is divided into 95 counties, along with 38 independent cities that are considered county-equivalents for census purposes, totaling 133 second-level subdivisions. In Virginia, cities are co-equal levels of government to counties, but towns are part of counties.
Partitioned into Greene County, Lenoir County, and Wayne County. Tryon County. 1768 [ 14] 1779 [ 14] Partitioned into Lincoln County and Rutherford County. For several months in 1784, Cumberland County was known as Fayette County and sent representatives to the North Carolina General Assembly of April 1784 under this name.
Sandbridge Beach ( 36°44′46″N 75°56′39″W) is in the southern part of the city of Virginia Beach. The beach is about 4.5 miles (7.2 kilometres) in length, north to south. Its location is like that of the Outer Banks of North Carolina, with the Back Bay of the Currituck Sound to the west and the Atlantic Ocean to the east.
Danville is located along the southern border of Virginia, 70 miles (110 km) south of Lynchburg [ 23] and 45 miles (72 km) northeast of Greensboro, North Carolina, via U.S. Route 29. [ 24] U.S. Route 58 leads east 78 miles (126 km) to South Hill [ 25] and west 30 miles (48 km) to Martinsville.
The following list contains the 420 counties and eight independent cities that comprise the region of Appalachia as defined by the Appalachian Regional Commission. The ARC was established by the United States federal government in 1965 to alleviate poverty in the Appalachian region, and currently monitors areas in 13 states.
Lake Gaston is a reservoir in the eastern United States. [ 1] Part of the lake is in the North Carolina counties of Halifax, Northampton, and Warren. The part extending into Virginia lies in Brunswick and Mecklenburg counties. Lake Gaston is roughly 35 miles (56 km) long and covers over 20,000 acres (81 km 2 ), with 350 miles (560 km) of shoreline.
Edenton, North Carolina. / 36.05806°N 76.60083°W / 36.05806; -76.60083. Edenton is a town in, and the county seat of, Chowan County, North Carolina, United States, [ 6] on Albemarle Sound. The population was 4,397 at the 2020 census. [ 7] Edenton is located in North Carolina's Inner Banks region. In recent years Edenton has become a ...
Galax / ˈɡeɪlæks / is an independent city in the southwestern part of the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,720. [ 4] The Bureau of Economic Analysis combines the city of Galax with neighboring Carroll County for statistical purposes. Galax is bounded to the northeast by Carroll County and to the ...