- Name
- Tazewell
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- Alternate names
- Tazewell (Getty Vocabulary Program)
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- Type
- County
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- Coordinates
- 37.1°N 81.567°W
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- Located in
- Virginia, United States (1800 - )
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- See also
- Bland, Virginia, United States (Child county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990))
- Buchanan, Virginia, United States (Child county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990))
- Giles, Virginia, United States (Child county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990))
- Montgomery, Virginia, United States (Parent county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990))
- Russell, Virginia, United States (Parent county (source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990))
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| Contained Places
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- Inhabited place
- Abbs Valley
- Adria
- Afredton
- Amonate
- Asberrys
- Bailey
- Bandy
- Benbolt
- Benbow
- Bernietown
- Bevers Store
- Big Vein
- Birmingham
- Bluefield
- Boissevain
- Burkes Garden
- Burtons Shop
- Busthead
- Camp Tazewell
- Cedar Bluff
- Claypool Hill
- Cliffield
- Coaldan
- Cove Creek
- Criggers
- Dalton Addition
- Doran
- Drytown
- Dunford Village
- Falls Mills
- Five Oaks
- Fork Ridge
- Frog Level
- Gap Store
- Gillespie
- Glen Burke
- Gose Mill
- Gratton
- Green Place
- Hales Bottom
- Harman
- Hereford
- Horsepen Cove
- Horsepen
- Indian
- Jewell Ridge
- Joe Neets
- Joe Whites
- Lake Park
- Lamberts Store
- Liberty
- Little Town
- Maiden Spring
- Maxwell
- McCall Place
- Mount Gate
- Mouth of Laurel
- Mud Fork
- Osborns Store
- Paintlick
- Pisgah
- Pocahontas
- Pounding Mill
- Premier
- Pucketts Store
- Raven
- Red Ash
- Richlands
- River Jack
- Rockhouse
- Rourkes Gap
- Saint Clair
- Sam
- Sayersville
- Seaboard
- Shannandale
- Shawver Mill
- Shraders
- Spracher Place
- Springville
- Steeleburg
- Stony Ridge
- Sulphur Spring
- Tabors
- Tannersville
- Tazewell
- Thompson Valley
- Tiptop
- Van Dyke
- Wardell
- West Graham
- Whites Store
- Wittens Fort
- Wittens Mills
- Youngs
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- Unknown
- Pocahantas
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- source: Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names
- source: Family History Library Catalog
- the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia
Tazewell County is a county located in the U.S. state — officially, "Commonwealth" — of Virginia. As of the 2000 census, the population was 44,598. It is part of the Bluefield WV-VA micropolitan area which has a population of 107,578. The micropolitan area is the 350th largest statistical population area and the thirty-third largest micropolitan in the United States. Its county seat is Tazewell6.
History
- the text in this section is copied from an article in Wikipedia
Tazewell County was created on December 20, 1799. The land for the county was taken from portions of Wythe and Russell Counties. It was named after Henry Tazewell, a United States Senator from Virginia as well as a state legislator and judge. The town of Jeffersonville was renamed Tazewell and became the county seat.
Tazewell was also the smallest town to get an electric street car.
Timeline
| Date | Event | Source
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| 1800 | County formed | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1800 | Court records recorded | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1800 | First census | Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
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| 1800 | Land records recorded | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1800 | Marriage records recorded | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1800 | Probate records recorded | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1853 | Birth records recorded | Source:Red Book: American State, County, and Town Sources
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| 1870 | No significant boundary changes after this year | Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
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Population History
- source: Source:Population of States and Counties of the United States: 1790-1990
| Census Year | Population
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| 1800 | 2,127
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| 1810 | 3,007
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| 1820 | 3,916
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| 1830 | 5,749
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| 1840 | 6,290
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| 1850 | 9,942
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| 1860 | 9,920
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| 1870 | 10,791
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| 1880 | 12,861
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| 1890 | 19,899
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| 1900 | 23,384
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| 1910 | 24,946
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| 1920 | 27,840
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| 1930 | 32,477
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| 1940 | 41,607
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| 1950 | 47,512
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| 1960 | 44,791
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| 1970 | 39,816
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| 1980 | 50,511
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| 1990 | 45,960
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