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| Website | https://www.co.augusta.va.us/ |
| Established | December 15, 1738 |
| Disbanded | Still Active |
| Last Modified | RP March 11, 2023 10:21am |
| Description | The County of Augusta is a political subdivision of the Commonwealth of Virginia administered by a seven member Board of Supervisors elected by magisterial district for four-year, staggered terms. The Board of Supervisors elects one of its own to serve as Chairman and selects a County Administrator to oversee the general administration of the County of Augusta.
The County is divided into seven magisterial districts with Board members elected from each district. The Board of Supervisors meets on the second and fourth Wednesday of each month at 7:00 p.m. |
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July 01, 1994 -
AUGUSTA lost to independent city of Waynesboro.
(U.S. Census Bureau, "Significant Changes to Counties and County Equivalent Entities: 1970-Present," http://www.gov/geo/www/tiger/ctychng.html, 4 August 2003)
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December 31, 1986 -
July 01, 1994
AUGUSTA lost to independent city of Staunton.
(Staunton Planning Dept., correspondence, December 1989; U.S. Census Bureau, "Significant Changes to Counties and County Equivalent Entities: 1970-Present," http://www.gov/geo/www/tiger/ctychng.html, 4 August 2003)
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December 31, 1985 -
December 31, 1986
AUGUSTA lost to independent city of Waynesboro.
(Waynesboro Planning Dept., correspondence, December 1989; U.S. Census Bureau, "Significant Changes to Counties and County Equivalent Entities: 1970-Present," http://www.gov/geo/www/tiger/ctychng.html, 4 August 2003)
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January 01, 1957 -
December 31, 1985
AUGUSTA lost to independent city of Waynesboro.
(Augusta County Law Order Book, vol. 34: 170-176; Waynesboro Planning Dept., correspondence, December 1989; Bain, Annexation, [246])
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January 01, 1956 -
January 01, 1957
AUGUSTA lost to independent city of Staunton.
(Staunton Planning Dept., correspondence, December 1989; Bain, Annexation, [246])
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January 01, 1955 -
January 01, 1956
AUGUSTA lost to independent city of Waynesboro.
(Augusta County Law Order Book, vol. 33: 357-361; Waynesboro Planning Dept., correspondence, December 1989; Bain, Annexation, [245])
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January 01, 1948 -
January 01, 1955
AUGUSTA lost to creation of Waynesboro as an independent city, and lost to the independent city of Staunton.
(Waynesboro Planning Dept., correspondence, December 1989; Bain, Body Incorporate, 63-64; Staunton Planning Dept., correspondence, December 1989; Bain, Annexation, [244])
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January 15, 1937 -
January 01, 1948
AUGUSTA lost to independent city of Staunton.
(Staunton Planning Dept., correspondence, December 1989; Bain, Annexation, [243])
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May 19, 1905 -
January 15, 1937
AUGUSTA lost to independent city of Staunton.
(Bain, Annexation, [240]; Staunton Planning Dept., correspondence, December 1989)
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July 10, 1902 -
May 19, 1905
AUGUSTA lost to creation of Staunton as an independent city.
(Bain, "Body Incorporate," 18-21; Swindler, 10:166, 169)
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May 01, 1791 -
July 10, 1902
AUGUSTA lost to PENDLETON (W.Va.) and lost to creation of BATH.
(Hening, 13:165-167)
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May 01, 1788 -
May 01, 1791
AUGUSTA lost to creation of PENDLETON (W.Va.).
(Hening, 12:637-638)
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October 31, 1780 -
May 01, 1788
[October 1780] AUGUSTA lost to MONONGALIA (W.Va.).
(Hening, 10:351)
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May 31, 1779 -
October 31, 1780
[May 1779] AUGUSTA lost to MONONGALIA (W.Va.).
(Hening, 10:114)
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March 01, 1778 -
May 31, 1779
AUGUSTA lost to creation of ROCKBRIDGE and ROCKINGHAM, and lost to HAMPSHIRE (W.Va.).
(Hening, 9:420-424)
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October 11, 1773 -
March 01, 1778
AUGUSTA lost to creation of West Augusta District (extinct) in present Pennsylvania.
(Abernethy, 94)
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January 31, 1770 -
October 11, 1773
AUGUSTA lost to creation of BOTETOURT.
(Hening, 8:395-398)
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May 01, 1754 -
January 31, 1770
AUGUSTA lost to FREDERICK and lost to creation of HAMPSHIRE (W.Va.).
(Hening, 6:376-379)
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December 15, 1738 -
May 01, 1754
AUGUSTA created from ORANGE [western boundary limits indefinite].
(Hening, 5:78-80; Robinson, 43)
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