Botetourt County, Virginia

Founding: 1770
Parent county: Augusta
Namesake: Norborne Berkeley, Fourth Baron Botetourt, Virginia governor
Seat: Fincastle (1772–)
Land area: 541 square miles
Population (2020): 33,596
Population (historic): 10,524 (1790); 11,679 (1840); 11,329 (1870); 17,161 (1900); 15,457 (1930)
Periods of population growth: pre-1790; 1800–1830; 1840s; 1870–1910; 1950–2020
Subdivisions: Three towns; four CDPs
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 1,605 (10.8%)
Pre-1940 housing survival rate: 45.2%
Pre-1860 housing survival rate (1940): 24.1%

Farm housing in disrepair (1950): 16.8%

Nonfarm housing in disrepair (1950): 19.7%
Average farmhouse value (1930): $1,616
Average outbuilding value (1930): $845
Average farmhouse size (1940): 6 rooms
Number of farms (1920): 1,666
Average farm size (1920): 64.4 acres
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Fincastle

 
Namesake: George Murray, Viscount of Fincastle, Scottish nobleman
Founding: 1772 (platting); 1792 (post office)
Population (2020): 755
Population (historic): 896 (1860); 675 (1880); 652 (1900); 517 (1930)
Periods of population growth: pre-1860; 1990s
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 110 (66.3%)
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