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Accomack County is a county located in the U.S. state — officially, "Commonwealth" — of Virginia. As of the 2000 census, the population was 38,305. Its county seat is Accomac6.
Accomack and Northampton Counties comprise the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
History
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Accomac Shire was established in 1634 as one of the original eight shires of Virginia. The shire's name comes from the Native American word Accawmack. In 1642 the named was changed to Northampton by the British, to eliminate "heathen" names in the New World. Northampton was split into two counties in 1663. The northern section assumed the original Accomac name, the southern, Northampton. In 1670, teh Virginia Colony's Royal Governor William Berkeley abolished Accomac County, but the Virginia General Assembly re-created it in 1671. In 1940, the General Assembly officially added a "k" to the end of the county's name to arrive at its current spelling. The very first Sheriff in the United States was appointed to serve Accomack County in 1634, named William Stone.
Timeline
Population History
- source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
| Census Year | Population
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| 1790 | 13,959
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| 1800 | 15,693
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| 1810 | 15,743
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| 1820 | 15,966
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| 1830 | 16,656
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| 1840 | 17,096
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| 1850 | 17,890
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| 1860 | 18,586
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| 1870 | 20,409
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| 1880 | 24,408
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| 1890 | 27,277
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| 1900 | 32,570
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| 1910 | 36,650
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| 1920 | 34,795
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| 1930 | 35,854
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| 1940 | 33,030
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| 1950 | 33,832
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| 1960 | 30,635
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| 1970 | 29,004
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| 1980 | 31,268
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| 1990 | 31,703
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