Template:Wp-Floyd County, Virginia

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Floyd County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 15,476. Its county seat is the town of Floyd. Floyd County is included in the Blacksburg-Christiansburg, VA Metropolitan Statistical Area. Named after Virginia politician John Floyd, the county was established in 1831 and became consistently Republican through the Democratic "Solid South" from the late 19th through the mid 20th century. The county's inhabitants largely abandoned the Southern Confederate Army during the Civil War, and it proved among the few white areas in antebellum slave states to endorse Radical Reconstruction. In the 1960s and 1970s, Floyd proved popular with people in the era's counterculture, particularly those who wanted to live in closer contact with nature. The county is located on the high plateau of the Blue Ridge Mountains and surrounded by the Little River.