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| Name | Tazewell |
| Alt names | Tazewell | source: Getty Vocabulary Program |
| Type | County |
| Coordinates | 37.1°N 81.567°W |
| Located in | Virginia, United States (1800 - ) |
| 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) |
- 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 southwestern portion of the U.S. state of Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 45,078. It is part of the Bluefield, West Virginia-Virginia micropolitan area which has a population of 107,342. Its county seat is the town of Tazewell.
History
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Before the arrival of pioneers Tazewell County was a hunting ground for Native Americans. Although rare in the eastern United States, there are petroglyphs near the summit of Paintlick Mountain.
In the spring of 1771 Thomas and John Witten established the first permanent settlement in Tazewell County at Crab Orchard.
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. Delegate Littleton Waller Tazewell originally opposed the formation of the new county but when Simon Cotterel, who drew up the bill to form the county, changed the originally proposed name of the county to Tazewell's namesake, in honor of his father Henry who had died months earlier, the bill passed.
Later, the town of Jeffersonville was renamed Tazewell and became the county seat.
Paramount's 1994 film Lassie was filmed here.
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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