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Cumberland County
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county in Virginia, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Virginia
- Named after
- William Augustus, Duke of Cumberland
- Seat
- Cumberland
- Largest town
- Farmville
- Total
- 300 sq mi (780 km )
- Land
- 297 sq mi (770 km )
- Water
- 2.3 sq mi (6.0 km ) 0.8%
- Estimate 2025
- 10,352
- Density
- 32.6/sq mi (12.6/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 5th
- Website
- cumberlandcounty, .virginia.gov
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Named after
- Prince William, Duke of Cumberland
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Virginia
- Capital
- Cumberland
- Population
- 9675
- Area
- 776
- Shares border with
- Fluvanna County
- Official website
- www.cumberlandcounty.virginia.gov
- Image
- Cumberland VA - county courthouse.jpg
- Households
- 4112
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- Commons category
- Cumberland County, Virginia
- topic's main category
- Category:Cumberland County, Virginia
- water as percent of area
- 0.8
- native label
- Cumberland County
- inception
- 1749-00-00
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Cumberland County, Virginia
- different from
- Cumberland County
- per capita income
- 29160
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Encyclopedic overview
Cumberland County is a rural United States county located near the geographic center of the Commonwealth of Virginia. The county's population is 9,675, as of the 2020 census, and the county seat is the small town of Cumberland.
The county was created in 1749 from part of Goochland County, and was named in honor of Prince William Augustus, the Duke of Cumberland at the time. In April 1776, it became the first Virginia county to call for independence from Great Britain.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Cumberland County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.