Formed May 1, 1777 (56th county)
Powhatan County (30,334), Powhatan* (664)
The cream brick Greek Revival courthouse was erected in 1849 and remodeled in 1992. The courthouse is on Old Buckingham Road at Courthouse. Virginia State Highway 13 is Old Buckingham Road. Alexander Jackson Davis provided the designs. The building features columns and veteran memorials on the grounds. Many of the Virginia counties have their county seat at a location named after the county followed by the words Court House. Some counties maintain this in their official name. The county was founded on May 1, 1777 from Cumberland County as the 56th county with Powhatan as the only county seat. The county and county seat are named for the Native American tribe.
Powhatan County government consists of a sheriff and 5 Supervisors. Three Circuit Court Judges and Five District Court Judges serve Powhatan, Amelia, Dinwiddie, and Nottoway counties and Petersburg City and Forty-nine Magistrate Court Judges serve Powhatan, Amelia, Appomattox, Brunswick, Buckingham, Charlotte, Chesterfield, Cumberland, Dinwiddie, Greensville, Halifax, Lunenburg, Mecklenburg, Nottoway, Prince Edward, Prince George, Surry, and Sussex counties and Colonial Heights, Emporia, Hopewell, and Petersburg cities. The county is in the southeast part of Virginia. Richmond, Virginia is directly east and Roanoke, Virginia is west of the county. The county center is 3.6 miles Northeast of Powhatan nearer Plain View. The county is surrounded clockwise by Goochland, Chesterfield, Amelia, and Cumberland counties.
The area of the county is 261 square miles. It is 77 out of 133 in the state. It ranks 57 out of 133 in population in the state. It has a density of 116.2 persons per square mile making it 62 out of 133 in the state. Powhatan County has 0.0% of its population in its incorporated areas since there aren’t any incorporated cities. United States Highway 60 crosses the county from east to west from Chesterfield County to Cumberland County. The county looks like a school bus with a tower on its top. The City of Powhatan is located slightly south of center in the county. Powhatan is the county seat and the largest populated area. It is 2.2% of the county population. The county and county seat are pronounced POW-HA-TAN. This county is in the Richmond Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Powhatan (unincorporated)
