Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Virginia
- County
- Amherst
- Total
- 4.92 sq mi (12.75 km )
- Land
- 4.90 sq mi (12.70 km )
- Water
- 0.019 sq mi (0.05 km )
- Elevation
- 761 ft (232 m)
- Estimate 2019
- 2,180
- Density
- 445/sq mi (171.7/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 (EDT)
- Fips code
- 51-01672
- Website
- Official website
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Amherst
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Amherst County
- Population
- 2110
- Area
- 12.732005
- Elevation
- 232
- Time zone
- UTC−05:00
- Capital of
- Amherst County
- Official website
- www.amherstva.gov
- Image
- Amherst VA Historical Society in Fall.jpg
- Households
- 1144
- Dialing code
- 434
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- postal code
- 24521
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Amherst, Virginia
- Commons category
- Amherst, Virginia
- inception
- 1807-01-01
- water as percent of area
- 0.3254
- per capita income
- 33487
Sources (8)
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Encyclopedic overview
Amherst (formerly Dearborn) is a town in Amherst County, Virginia, United States. As of the 2020 census, Amherst had a population of 2,110. It is the county seat of Amherst County.
Amherst is part of the Lynchburg metropolitan area.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Amherst” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.