Nottoway, Virginia

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Nottoway, or Nottoway Court House, is a census-designated place (CDP) in and the county seat of Nottoway County, Virginia, United States.[1] The population at the time of the 2010 Census was 84.[2] This had decreased to 63 by the 2020 Census.[3]

Nottoway was originally known as Lewistown. Nottoway was a stop on the Southside Railroad in the mid-nineteenth Century. This became the Atlantic, Mississippi and Ohio Railroad in 1870 and then a line in the Norfolk and Western Railway and now the Norfolk Southern Railway.[4]

Since desegregation, the village's public high school now serves the entire county's population.

The Nottoway County Courthouse was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1973.[5]

Demographics

Historical population
CensusPop.Note
202063
U.S. Decennial Census[6]
2010[7] 2020

Nottoway County Courthouse was first listed as a census designated place in the 2010 U.S. census.[7]

References

  1. "Find a County". National Association of Counties. Retrieved June 7, 2011.
  2. Virginia Trend Report 2: State and Complete Places (Sub-state 2010 Census Data). Deprecated link archived 2012-07-11 at archive.today Missouri Census Data Center. Accessed 2011-06-08.
  3. "Explore Census Data". data.census.gov. Retrieved January 23, 2024.
  4. Bright, David L. (2015). "Confederate Railroads - South Side". Confederate Railroads. Retrieved January 25, 2018.
  5. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places. National Park Service. July 9, 2010.
  6. "Decennial Census by Decade". United States Census Bureau.
  7. "2010 Census of Population - Population and Housing Unit Counts - Virginia" (PDF). United States Census Bureau.

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