Talk:Stafford, Virginia

message: Stafford Virginia is a great place to live. don't you think??  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 74.93.119.233 (talk) 14:11, 27 October 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  About Stafford 

message: There is no such place as "Stafford" Virginia.  It is only Stafford County, Virgina (which is another Wikipedia page).  There is no locality in Stafford County with specific boundaries referred to as just "Stafford".  The Census Bureau CDP location within Stafford County is called "Stafford Courthouse" as this article correctly states.  The Stafford Courthouse area (at the center of Stafford County) is only 4.276 sq miles (per Census data).  There are certainly no high schools within this area nor are the historical places that are listed here.  When people say they live in Stafford (as I do all the time), they mean Stafford County.  They never mean the Stafford Courthouse area of Stafford County.  It is the same Fauquier, King George, Spotsylvania, Loudoun and many other counties in Virginia.  People often drop the word "County" of their hometown, but it is not a separate place.  They are still the counties.  People use King George, VA or Stafford, VA on a postal letter.  These are simply short for writing King George County, VA or Stafford County, VA.
There is no section/district/locality of Stafford County referred to as "Stafford".  The "Municipalities and communities of Stafford County, Virginia, United States" box at the bottom of this page incorrectly lists the CDP as "Stafford" when it is actually "Stafford Courthouse" in all census data.
Nothing on this page is correct other that the statement that there is a CDP location called Stafford Courthouse CDP and population of the Stafford Courthouse CDP location within that 4.276 sq mile area.  (Stafford County is approximately 267 thousand square miles, with a population of approximately 129 thousand people).  Interstate 95 and the VRE (railway) do not run through the Stafford Courthouse CDP area.  They do run through Stafford County (different page). Alecjacobryan (talk) 18:18, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  This page needs to be renamed to Stafford Courthouse (CDP) See Move Request below. 

message: SUPPORT - Regarding the final comment from  AjaxSmack  above - Please see the definition of a county seat at Princeton.edu.  In particular see this excerpt:
:A county seat is usually, but not always, an incorporated municipality. The exceptions include, but are not limited to, the county seats of counties that have no incorporated municipalities within their borders, such as Arlington County, Virginia and Howard County, Maryland. 
Notice that one of the examples they use is Arlington County, Virginia.  This is because this is the way counties in Virginia do things.  I don't know of any county in Virginia with an incorporated municipality within its borders.  That is not to say that it doesn't exist because I don't know that.  However, I DO know that Stafford County does not.
I am in the process of contacting Stafford County officials on this matter.  Once I have a word back from them, I will post it here request to move this along. Alecjacobryan (talk) 16:27, 10 February 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  MOVE THIS PAGE (cont.) 

message: I removed the unreferenced section on Aquia Church haunting as it didn't fit with the rest of the article and isn't addressed in the main article Aquia Church. Feel free to replace it once it better sourced. BaomoVW (talk) 01:18, 2 March 2018 (UTC)
thread_title: Aquia Church haunting