page_title: Augusta County, Virginia
section_title: Geography
hierarchical_section_title: Augusta County, Virginia / Geography
caption_attribution_description: View from Parnassus
context_page_description: Augusta County is a county located in the Shenandoah Valley on the western edge of the U.S. commonwealth of Virginia. It is the second-largest county in Virginia by total area, and it completely surrounds the independent cities of Staunton and Waynesboro. The county seat of Augusta is Staunton, although most of the administrative services have offices in neighboring Verona.
  The county was created in 1738 from part of Orange County, and was named after Princess Augusta of Saxe-Gotha. It was originally a huge area, but many parts of Augusta County were carved out to form other counties and several states, until the current border was finalized in 1790.
  As of the 2010 census, the county population was 73,750, which represented an increase of more than 34 percent over the 1990 figure. Along with Staunton and Waynesboro, it forms the Staunton–Waynesboro, VA Metropolitan Statistical Area.
context_section_description: According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 971 square miles (2,510 km²), of which 967 square miles (2,500 km²) is land and 3.9 square miles (10 km²) (0.4%) is water. It is the third-largest county in Virginia by land area and second-largest by total area.
caption: View of Augusta County countryside across the Shenandoah Valley toward the Blue Ridge Mountains.
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