this page needs to be removed 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 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 sq mile area stafford county is approximately thousand square miles with a population of approximately thousand people interstate and the vre railway do not run through the stafford courthouse cdp area they do run through stafford county different page