Augusta County, Virginia

Founding: 1745 (declared in 1738)
Parent county: Orange
Namesake: Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of Wales
Seat: Staunton (1746–)
Land area: 967 square miles
Population (2020): 77,487
Population (historic): 10,886 (1790); 19,628 (1840); 28,763 (1870); 32,370 (1900); 38,163 (1930)
Periods of population growth: pre-1790; 1800–1830; 1840–1860; 1870s; 1920–1940; 1960–1980; 1990–2010
Subdivisions: Two cities; two towns; 17 CDPs
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 3,848 (11.8%)
Pre-1940 housing survival rate: 34.3%
Pre-1860 housing survival rate (1940): 24.6%

Farm housing in disrepair (1950): 7.9%

Nonfarm housing in disrepair (1950): 9.9%

Average farmhouse value (1930): $2,262
Average outbuilding value (1930): $1,736

Average farmhouse size (1940): 6.6 rooms
Number of farms (1920): 3,759
Average farm size (1920): 79.6 acres
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Staunton

 
Namesake: Rebecca Staunton, wife of William Gooch, Virginia governor
Founding: 1746 (platting); 1792 (post office); 1801 (incorporation)
Population (2020): 25,750
Population (historic): 3,875 (1860); 6,664 (1880); 7,289 (1900); 11,990 (1930)
Periods of population growth: pre-1860–1880; 1900s; 1920–1970; 1980s
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 2,333 (19.7%)
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