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'''Campbell County''' is a [[county (United States)|United States county]] situated in the south central part of the [[Commonwealth (U.S. state)|Commonwealth]] of [[Virginia]]. Located in the [[Piedmont region of Virginia]], Campbell borders the [[Blue Ridge Mountains]]. The [[county seat]] is [[Rustburg, Virginia|Rustburg]].<ref name="GR6">{{cite web|url=http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx |access-date=June 7, 2011 |title=Find a County |publisher=National Association of Counties |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110531210815/http://www.naco.org/Counties/Pages/FindACounty.aspx |archive-date=May 31, 2011 }}</ref> Grounded on a [[tobacco]] [[cash crop]] economy, Campbell County was created in 1782 from part of [[Bedford County, Virginia|Bedford County]]. The county was named in honor of General [[William Campbell (general)|William Campbell]], hero of the [[American Revolutionary War]]. Campbell County is part of the [[Lynchburg metropolitan area]]. At the [[2020 United States census|2020 census]], the county population was 55,696.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Campbell County, Virginia|url=https://data.census.gov/cedsci/profile?g=0500000US51031|website=[[United States Census Bureau]]|accessdate=January 30, 2022}}</ref> The number of residents has grown steadily in every census after 1930, and the total population has more than doubled since that time.<ref name="QF">{{cite web|title=State & County QuickFacts|url=http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/51/51031.html|publisher=United States Census Bureau|access-date=January 1, 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110629023734/http://quickfacts.census.gov/qfd/states/51/51031.html|archive-date=June 29, 2011|url-status=dead}}</ref> Lynchburg was established in Campbell County in 1786, incorporated as a town in 1805, and separated from Campbell County when it became an independent city in 1852. Lynchburg has annexed additional land from Bedford County and Campbell County through the years, most recently in 1976.
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