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Virginia County Formation Maps
(Maps made with the use AniMap Plus County Boundary Historical AniMap 3.0 and with the Permission of the Goldbug Company)
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| unorg. = unorganized g. = gained w. = with fr. = from atmt. = attachment exch = exchanged nca.= non county area ch. = changed Aco - Accomack Alb - Albemarle All - Alleghany Ame - Amelia Amh - Amherst Ap - Appomattox Ar - Arlington Au - Augusta Bar - Barbour (WV) Bat - Bath Bcn - Buchanan Bed - Bedford Ber - Berkeley (WV) Bkm - Buckingham Bl - Bland Boo - Boone (WV) Bot - Botetourt Bra - Braxton (WV) Brn - Brunswick Bro - Brooke (WV) Cab - Cabell (WV) Cal - Calhoun (WV) Cam - Campbell CC - Charles City Che - Chesterfield Clk - Clarke Clt - Charlotte Cly - Clay (WV) Cr - Craig Crl - Carroll Crn - Caroline Cul - Culpeper Cum - Cumberland Dic - Dickenson Din - Dinwiddie Do - Doddridge (WV) EC - Elizabeth City Es - Essex |
Fai - Fairfax Fau - Fauquier Fay - Fayette (WV) Flo - Floyd Flu - Fluvanna Fra - Franklin Fre - Frederick Gl - Gloucester Gls - Giles Gmr - Gilmer (WV) Go - Goochland Gra - Grant (WV) Gra - Grayson Grb - Greenbrier (WV) Grn - Greene Gvl - Greensville Hal - Halifax Ham - Hampshire (WV) Hck - Hancock (WV) Hco - Henrico Hdy - Hardy (WV) Hi - Highland Hry - Henry Hsn - Harrison (WV) Hvr - Hanover IW - Isle of Wight Jac - Jackson (WV) JC - James City Je - Jefferson (WV) Ka - Kanawha (WV) KG - King George KQ - King and Queen KW - King William La - Lancaster Ldn - Loudon Lee - Lee Lew - Lewis (WV) Li - Lincoln (WV) Log - Logan (WV) Lsa - Louisa Lu - Lunenburg Mad - Madison Mas - Mason (WV) Mat - Mathews Mc - McDowell (WV) Mec - Mecklenburg |
Mer - Mercer (WV) Mgl - Monongalia (WV) Mid - Middlesex Mnl - Mineral (WV) Mno - Mingo (WV) Mon - Montgomery Mor - Morgan (WV) Mrn - Marion (WV) Mro - Monroe (WV) Msl - Marshall (WV) Na - Nansemond Nel - Nelson Nfk - Norfolk Nhn - Northampton Ni - Nicholas (WV) NK - New Kent Not - Nottoway Nud - Northumberland Oh - Ohio (WV) Or - Orange PA - Princess Anne Pag - Page Pat - Patrick Pe - Pendleton (WV) PE - Prince Edward PG - Prince George Pi - Pittsylvania Pl - Pleasants (WV) Poc - Pocahontas (WV) Pow - Powhatan Pr - Preston (WV) Pul - Pulaski Put - Putnam (WV) PW - Prince William Ral - Raleigh (WV) Ran - Randolph (WV) Rap - Rappahannock Rbr - Rockbridge Rhm - Rockingham Ric - Richmond Rit - Ritchie (WV) Rne - Roane (WV) Rnk - Roanoke Ru - Russell Sc - Scott Sh - Shenandoah |
Sm - Smyth So - Southampton Sp - Spotsylvania St - Stafford Su - Summers (WV) Sur - Surry Sus - Sussex Tay - Taylor (WV) Taz - Tazewell Tu - Tucker (WV) Ty - Tyler (WV) Up - Upshur (WV) Was - Washington Way - Wayne (WV) Web - Webster (WV) Wes - Westmoreland Wet - Wetzel (WV) Wir - Wirt (WV) Wis - Wise Wod - Wood (WV) Wrn - Warren Wwk - Warwick Wy - Wythe Wyo - Wyoming (WV) Yor - York [Independent - cities: [Alexandria [Bristol [Buena Vista [Charlottesville [Clifton Forge [Danville [Fredericksburg [Hampton [Harrisonburg [Hopewell [Lynchburg [Newport News [Norfolk [Petersburg [Portsmouth [Radford [Richmond [Roanoke [Staunton [Suffolk [Williamsburg [Winchester |
Virginia Antique Maps & Atlases has images of old American atlases during the years 1795, 1814, 1822, 1823, 1836, 1838, 1845, 1856, 1866, 1879 and 1897 for Virginia and other states.
You can view rotating animated maps for Virginia showing all the county boundary changes for each year overlayed with past and present maps so you can see the changes in county boundaries . You can view a list of maps for other states and State Department of Transportation Maps at County Maps.