Gloucester County, Virginia

Founding: 1651
Parent county: York
Namesake: Gloucestershire, England
Seat: Gloucester (1680s–)
Land area: 218 square miles
Population (2020): 38,711
Population (historic): 13,498 (1790); 10,715 (1840); 10,211 (1870); 12,832 (1900); 11,019 (1930)
Periods of population growth: pre-1790; 1800s; 1820–1840; 1850s; 1870s; 1890s; 1940–2020
Subdivisions: Two CDPs
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 1,118 (6.7%)
Pre-1940 housing survival rate: 43.4%
Pre-1860 housing survival rate (1940): 15.2%

Farm housing in disrepair (1950): 23.3%

Nonfarm housing in disrepair (1950): 18.5%
Average farmhouse value (1930): $1,196
Average outbuilding value (1930): $523
Average farmhouse size (1940): 5.7 rooms
Number of farms (1920): 1,811
Average farm size (1920): 24.9 acres
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Gloucester

 
Namesake: Gloucester County
Founding: circa 1680 (founding); 1769 (platting); 1794 (post office)
Population (2020): 3,030
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 92 (8.7%)
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