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Highland County
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county in Virginia, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Virginia
- Seat
- Monterey
- Largest town
- Monterey
- Total
- 416 sq mi (1,080 km )
- Land
- 415 sq mi (1,070 km )
- Water
- 0.7 sq mi (1.8 km ) 0.2%
- Estimate 2025
- 2,318
- Density
- 5.38/sq mi (2.08/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 6th
- Website
- www .highlandcova .org
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Highland County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 2,232, making it the state's least populous jurisdiction, including counties and independent cities. Its county seat is Monterey. Known as "Virginia's Switzerland" or "Virginia's Little Switzerland", Highland lays claim to being one of the least populous counties east of the Mississippi River, and is the second-highest county in Virginia by average elevation after Grayson.
History
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Highland County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.