Wythe County, Virginia

Founding: 1790
Parent county: Montgomery
Namesake: George Wythe, Virginia jurist
Seat: Wytheville (1790–)
Land area: 462 square miles
Population (2020): 28,290
Population (historic): 6,380 (1800); 9,375 (1840); 11,611 (1870); 20,437 (1900); 20,704 (1930)
Periods of population growth: pre-1800–1830; 1840–1860; 1870–1900; 1920–1950; 1960–1980; 1990–2010
Subdivisions: Two towns; three CDPs
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 1,889 (13.1%)
Pre-1940 housing survival rate: 40.1%
Pre-1860 housing survival rate (1940): 13.8%

Farm housing in disrepair (1950): 14%

Nonfarm housing in disrepair (1950): 18.4%
Average farmhouse value (1930): $1,364
Average outbuilding value (1930): $798

Average farmhouse size (1940): 5.5 rooms
Number of farms (1920): 1,587
Average farm size (1920): 87.9 acres
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Wytheville

 
Namesake: George Wythe, Virginia jurist
Founding: 1790 (platting); 1792 (post office); 1839 (incorporation)
Population (2020): 8,265
Population (historic): 1,111 (1860); 1,885 (1880); 3,003 (1900); 3,327 (1930)
Periods of population growth: pre-1860–1910; 1920–1990; 2000s
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 648 (10.5%)
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