Blacksburg
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town in Virginia, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Virginia
- County
- Montgomery
- Named after
- Samuel Black
- Mayor
- Micheal Sutphin
- Town
- 19.77 sq mi (51.20 km )
- Land
- 19.74 sq mi (51.12 km )
- Water
- 0.031 sq mi (0.08 km ) 0.10%
- Elevation
- 2,080 ft (630 m)
- Density
- 2,271/sq mi (876.9/km )
- Metro
- 181,863
- Demonym
- Blacksburger
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( EST )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Zip codes
- 24060–24063
- Fips code
- 51-07784
- Website
- www.blacksburg.gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Official name
- Town of Blacksburg
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Montgomery County
- Population
- 44826
- Area
- 51.601871
- Elevation
- 633
- Time zone
- Eastern Time Zone
- Official website
- www.blacksburg.gov
- Image
- Blacksburg, Virginia.jpg
- Households
- 12935
- Dialing code
- 540
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- Commons category
- Blacksburg, Virginia
- social media followers
- 10862
- topic's main category
- Category:Blacksburg, Virginia
- postal code
- 24063
- inception
- 1798-00-00
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Blacksburg, Virginia
- water as percent of area
- 0.1557
- per capita income
- 22571
- P12749
- Santiago province
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Encyclopedic overview
Blacksburg is an incorporated town in Montgomery County, Virginia, United States, with a population of 44,826 at the 2020 census. Blacksburg and the surrounding county is dominated economically and demographically by the presence of Virginia Tech.
Blacksburg, Christiansburg, and the city of Radford are the three principal jurisdictions of the Blacksburg-Christiansburg metropolitan area, which encompasses those jurisdictions and all of Montgomery, Pulaski, and Giles counties for statistical purposes. The MSA has an estimated population of 181,863 and is currently one of the faster-growing MSAs in Virginia.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Blacksburg” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.