York County
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county in Virginia, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Virginia
- Named after
- York
- Seat
- Yorktown
- Largest community
- Grafton
- Total
- 215 sq mi (560 km )
- Land
- 105 sq mi (270 km )
- Water
- 110 sq mi (280 km ) 51.3%
- Estimate 2025
- 71,374
- Density
- 667/sq mi (258/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 ( EDT )
- Congressional district
- 1st
- Website
- www .yorkcounty .gov
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
York County (formerly Charles River County) is a county in the eastern part of the Commonwealth of Virginia, located in the Tidewater. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 70,045. The county seat is the unincorporated town of Yorktown.
Located on the north side of the Virginia Peninsula, with the York River as its northern border, York County is included in the Virginia Beach–Norfolk–Newport News, VA–NC Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “York County” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.