Halifax County

county in Virginia, United States
Administrative Area County of Virginia Q505886

Facts

22 properties

Identity

Instance of
county of Virginia
Inception
1752[15]
Native label
Halifax County

Population and size

Area
+2149
Population
34k (34k–36k, n=7)[20][21][22][23]
More facts +12
Basic form of government
County Commission[12]
Capital
Halifax[4]
Contains the administrative territorial entity
Halifax[14]
Different from
Halifax County
NCI Thesaurus ID
C110548
Number of households
+14155
Per capita income
+24368
Significant event
boundary change, boundary change[17][18]
Water as percent of area
+1.4
🏷️ Also known as
en Halifax County, Virginia en Halifax County en Halifax County, VA ar مقاطعه هاليفاكس، فيرجينيا ar مقاطعة هاليفاكس ar مقاطعة هاليفاكس، فيرجينيا el κομητεία Χάλιφαξ es Halifax County es condado de Halifax es Condado de Halifax (Virginia) fa شهرستان هالیفاکس fi Halifaxin piirikunta fr comté de Halifax fr Halifax County he מחוז הליפקס hu Halifax megye it contea di Halifax it Halifax County ja ハリファックス郡 ko 핼리팩스군
🔖 Identifiers · 28
VIAF cluster ID
146567820
Library of Congress Authorities ID
n79055842
ArchINFORM location ID
20971
FIPS 6-4 ID
51083
Freebase ID
/m/0mnst
GNIS Feature ID
1496705
GeoNames ID
4762757
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
2002166
HASC
US.VA.HL
Show all 28 identifiers +16
Harper's tag
halifax-county
INaturalist place ID
1075
J9U entity ID
987007561802605171
KnowWhereGraph entity ID
administrativeRegion.USA.51083
OBO Gazetteer ID
00152765
OpenHistoricalMap relation ID
2793929
OpenStreetMap relation ID
2532627
Our Campaigns container ID
5522
Taxonomicon ID
1808213
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10040182
UMLS CUI
C3815146
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJr83tPJFMKT3BmfB3X8G3
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🔗 Connections
People born here 13
Contained subdivisions 11
Shares border with 7
← Shares border with 7
← Category combines topics 3
Capital 1
Category of associated people 1
Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Country 1
Different from 1
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Named after 1
Topic's main category 1
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Summary

Halifax County is a county of Virginia[1].

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Physical Characteristics

Halifax County covers an area of {'amount': '+2149'}[24]. Population counts include {'amount': '+36241'}[20], {'amount': '+36155'}[21], {'amount': '+36022'}[22], {'amount': '+35817'}[23], {'amount': '+35401'}[25], and {'amount': '+35125'}[26].

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Direct Wikidata claims

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Class ancestry

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Rolling log of changes to this entity's Wikidata record. Values shown reflect the current state of each edited property — follow the history link to see the precise diff for any edit.

  1. 10w ago · Theklan · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Tabular data series → Data:US presidential elections by county/Halifax County, Vir
    "Created claim: Tabular data series: Data:US presidential elections by county/Halifax County, Virginia.tab, Link US presidential election dataset (P14687, subject: United States president"
  2. 11w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-08-25 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Harper's tag → halifax-county
    "Created claim: Harper's tag: halifax-county, Matched to halifax county (#289935034) in Harper's…"
  3. 14w ago · JuxtaposedJacob · 2026-08-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Basic form of government → County Commission
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #45905: county forms"
  4. 26w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    UMLS CUI → C3815146
    OBO Gazetteer ID → 00152765
    Taxonomicon ID → 1808213
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #31546"
  5. 26w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → county of Virginia
    Official website → https://www.halifaxcountyva.gov/
    Contains the administrative territorial entity → Halifax
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Virginia
    + 19 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: NCI Thesaurus ID: C110548, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1778695477825"
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