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Rappahannock County, Virginia

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About Rappahannock County

Rappahannock County is a county located in the northern Piedmont of the Commonwealth of Virginia, US, adjacent to Shenandoah National Park. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 7,348. Its county seat and only incorporated town, is Washington. The name "Rappahannock" comes from the Algonquian word lappihanne, meaning "river of quick, rising water" or "where the tide ebbs and flows." The county is included in the Washington-Arlington-Alexandria, DC-VA-MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area.

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Facts

Rappahannock County at a glance

County seat
Washington
Population
7,348 (2020)
Land area
267 sq mi
Founded
1833

Communities

Largest communities in Rappahannock County

  1. Chester Gappopulation 894
  2. Sperryvillepopulation 302
  3. Flint Hillpopulation 222
  4. Washington County seatpopulation 86

History

History of Rappahannock County

Rappahannock County was founded by an act of the Virginia General Assembly in 1833, based on the growing population's need to have better access to a county seat. The county's land was carved from Culpeper County. Rappahannock County was named for the river that separates it from Fauquier County. The land on which Rappahannock County is sited was owned in the early 1700s by Thomas Fairfax 6th Lord Fairfax. It was part of the Northern Neck Proprietary, which consisted of 5.3 million acres of land located between the Rappahannock River and the Potomac River, from their headwaters in the Blue Ridge Mountains to the Chesapeake Bay. In 1649, King Charles II of England, then in exile in France after the execution of his father (Charles I), had given this unmapped and unsettled region to seven loyal supporters.

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