Greenbrier County, West Virginia

Founding: 1778
Parent counties: Botetourt and Montgomery

Namesake: The Greenbrier River
Seat: Lewisburg (1780–)

Land area: 1,020 square miles

Population (2020): 32,608

Population (historic): 6,015 (1790); 8,695 (1840); 11,417 (1870); 20,683 (1900); 35,878 (1930)

Periods of population growth: pre-1790; 1800–1830; 1840–1860; 1870–1950; 1970s; 2000s

Subdivisions: Three cities; four towns; one CDP

Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 3,665 (19%)
Pre-1940 housing survival rate: 37.2%
Pre-1860 housing survival rate (1940): 15%

Farm housing in disrepair (1950): 20%

Nonfarm housing in disrepair (1950): 17.9%

Average farmhouse value (1930): $1,207
Average outbuilding value (1930): $616
Average farmhouse size (1940): 5.6 rooms
Number of farms (1920): 2,439
Average farm size (1920): 61.1 acres
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Lewisburg

Namesake: Andrew Lewis, Virginia surveyor

Founding: 1780 (platting); 1782 (incorporation); 1794 (post office)

Population (2020): 3,930

Population (historic): 969 (1860); 985 (1880); 872 (1900); 1,293 (1930)

Periods of population growth: pre-1860; 1870–1890; 1910–2020
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 437 (18.8%)
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