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Albemarle County
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county in Virginia, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Virginia
- Named after
- Willem Anne van Keppel , 2nd Earl of Albemarle
- Seat
- Charlottesville
- Largest town
- Scottsville
- Total
- 726 sq mi (1,880 km )
- Land
- 721 sq mi (1,870 km )
- Water
- 5 sq mi (13 km ) 0.7%
- Estimate 2025
- 118,356
- Density
- 155/sq mi (60/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional districts
- 5th , 7th
- Website
- www .albemarle .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Willem van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Virginia
- Contains
- Charlottesville
- Capital
- Charlottesville
- Population
- 112395
- Area
- 1881
- Shares border with
- Buckingham County
- Official website
- www.albemarle.org
- Image
- Albemarle County Office Building.jpg
- Households
- 42381
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- category for people who died here
- Category:Deaths in Albemarle County, Virginia
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Albemarle County, Virginia
- Commons category
- Albemarle County, Virginia
- topic's main category
- Category:Albemarle County, Virginia
- category for people born here
- Category:Births in Albemarle County, Virginia
- twinned administrative body
- Prato
- inception
- 1744-05-06
- water as percent of area
- 0.7
- native label
- Albemarle County
- social media followers
- 5140
- per capita income
- 46241
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Encyclopedic overview
Albemarle County is located in the Piedmont region of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. Its county seat is Charlottesville, which is an independent city entirely surrounded by the county. Albemarle County is part of the Charlottesville Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2020 census, the population was 112,395.
Albemarle County was created in 1744 from the western portion of Goochland County, though portions of Albemarle were later carved out to create other counties. Albemarle County was named in honor of Willem Anne van Keppel, 2nd Earl of Albemarle. Its most famous inhabitant was Thomas Jefferson, who built his estate home, Monticello, in the county.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Albemarle County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.