Augusta County
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Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Virginia
- Named after
- Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha
- Seat
- Staunton
- Largest community
- Stuarts Draft
- Total
- 971 sq mi (2,510 km )
- Land
- 967 sq mi (2,500 km )
- Water
- 3.9 sq mi (10 km ) 0.4%
- Estimate 2025
- 78,940
- Density
- 80.1/sq mi (30.9/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 6th
- Website
- www .co .augusta .va .us
via Wikipedia infobox
Article
Augusta County is a county in the Shenandoah Valley on the western edge of the Commonwealth of Virginia in the United States. The second-largest county of Virginia by total area, it completely surrounds the independent cities of Staunton and Waynesboro. Its county seat is Staunton, but most of the administrative services have offices in neighboring Verona.
The county was created in 1738 from part of Orange County and was named after Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha. It was originally a huge area, but many of its parts were carved out to form other counties and several states until the current borders were finalized in 1790.