Culpeper County
Also known as Culpeper County, Virginia, Culpeper County, VA
county in Virginia, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Virginia
- Named after
- Catherine Culpeper, daughter of Thomas Colepeper, 2nd Baron Colepeper of Thoresway
- Seat
- Culpeper
- Largest town
- Culpeper
- Total
- 383 sq mi (990 km )
- Land
- 379 sq mi (980 km )
- Water
- 3.3 sq mi (8.5 km ) 0.9%
- Estimate 2025
- 57,666
- Density
- 138.6/sq mi (53.5/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Zip codes
Article
Culpeper County is a United States county located in the north-central part of the Piedmont region of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The county is included in the Washington–Baltimore–Arlington, DC–MD–VA–WV–PA Combined Statistical Area, and its population was 52,552 as of the 2020 census. Its county seat is the town of Culpeper.
Culpeper County was created in 1749, and its first county surveyor was a young George Washington. The county and its residents played notable roles in America's early wars, including raising the Culpeper Minutemen, a militia that fought in both the Revolutionary War and the Civil War.