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Montgomery County
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county in Virginia, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Virginia
- Named after
- Richard Montgomery
- Seat
- Christiansburg
- Largest town
- Blacksburg
- Total
- 389 sq mi (1,010 km )
- Land
- 387 sq mi (1,000 km )
- Water
- 2.2 sq mi (5.7 km ) 0.6%
- Estimate 2025
- 98,434
- Density
- 256/sq mi (99/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 9th
- Website
- www .montva .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Richard Montgomery
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Virginia
- Contains
- Christiansburg
- Capital
- Christiansburg
- Population
- 99721
- Area
- 1009
- Shares border with
- Radford
- Official website
- www.montva.com
- Image
- Montgomery County Courthouse - new.JPG
- Households
- 35388
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- Commons category
- Montgomery County, Virginia
- topic's main category
- Category:Montgomery County, Virginia
- inception
- 1772-00-00
- different from
- Montgomery County
- water as percent of area
- 0.6
- native label
- Montgomery County
- social media followers
- 4152
- per capita income
- 30581
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Encyclopedic overview
Montgomery County is a county located in the Valley and Ridge area of the U.S. state of Virginia. As population in the area increased, Montgomery County was formed in 1777 from Fincastle County, which in turn had been taken from Botetourt County. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 99,721. Its county seat is Christiansburg, and Blacksburg is the largest town. Montgomery County is part of the Blacksburg-Christiansburg metropolitan area. It is dominated economically by the presence of Virginia Tech, Virginia's third largest public university, which is the county's largest employer.
Board of Supervisors
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Montgomery County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.