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Dickenson County
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county in Virginia, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Virginia
- Named after
- William J. Dickinson
- Seat
- Clintwood
- Largest town
- Clintwood
- Total
- 334 sq mi (870 km )
- Land
- 331 sq mi (860 km )
- Water
- 3.1 sq mi (8.0 km ) 0.9%
- Estimate 2025
- 13,236
- Density
- 42.7/sq mi (16.5/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 9th
- Website
- www .dickensonva .org
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Virginia
- Capital
- Clintwood
- Population
- 14124
- Area
- 864
- Shares border with
- Russell County
- Official website
- www.dickensonva.org
- Image
- Dickenson County Courthouse.jpg
- Households
- 5727
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- Commons category
- Dickenson County, Virginia
- topic's main category
- Category:Dickenson County, Virginia
- inception
- 1880-00-00
- category of associated people
- Category:People from Dickenson County, Virginia
- different from
- Dickson County
- water as percent of area
- 0.9
- native label
- Dickenson County
- per capita income
- 25485
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Encyclopedic overview
Dickenson County is a mountainous United States county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia on the Appalachian Plateau. Bordering Kentucky, Dickenson is situated near the far western point of Virginia. Its county seat is Clintwood, and, as of the 2020 census, the county population was 14,124.
Formed in 1880 from parts of several western Virginia counties, Dickenson is the most recently created county in the state. The county was named in honor of William J. Dickenson, a long serving local member of the Virginia General Assembly, who sponsored the creation of the new county.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Dickenson County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.