Amherst County, Virginia

Founding: 1761
Parent county: Albemarle
Namesake: Jeffery Amherst, British army officer
Seat: Amherst (1807–)
Land area: 474 square miles
Population (2020): 31,307
Population (historic): 13,703 (1790); 12,576 (1840); 14,900 (1870); 17,864 (1900); 19,020 (1930)
Periods of population growth: pre-1790–1800; 1820–1880; 1890–1920; 1930–1980; 1990–2010
Subdivisions: One town; one CDP
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 1,569 (11%)
Pre-1940 housing survival rate: 34.9%
Pre-1860 housing survival rate (1940): 21.9%

Farm housing in disrepair (1950): 27.7%

Nonfarm housing in disrepair (1950): 20.8%

Average farmhouse value (1930): $1,005
Average outbuilding value (1930): $435

Average farmhouse size (1940): 5.1 acres

Number of farms (1920): 2,472
Average farm size (1920): 44.3 acres
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Amherst

 
Namesake: Amherst County
Founding: 1803 (post office); 1910 (incorporation)
Population (2020): 2,110
Population (historic): 590 (1890); 618 (1910); 876 (1930)
Periods of population growth: pre-1890; 1920–1960; 1990s
Pre-1940 residences (estimated): 224 (18.1%)
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