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Mathews County

county in Virginia, United States
AdministrativeArea county_of_virginia Q336948

Facts

22 properties

Identity

Instance of
county of Virginia
Inception
1791[10]
Official website
www.mathewscountyva.gov[12]
Native label
Mathews County[22]

Location

Country
United States[2]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 37.420°, -76.280°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Virginia[1]
Located in/on physical feature
Middle Peninsula[11]
Shares border with
Middlesex County, Gloucester County, York County[4][5][6]

Population and size

Area
+653[24]
Population
8.5k (8.5k–9.0k, n=7)[13][14][15][16][17][18][19]
More facts +11
Basic form of government
County Commission[7]
Capital
Mathews[3]
Contains the administrative territorial entity
Mathews[9]
Geoshape
🗺️ View shape: United States/Virginia/Mathews County
List of monuments
National Register of Historic Places listings in Mathews County, Virginia[20]
NCI Thesaurus ID
C110564[23]
Named after
Thomas Mathews[8]
Number of households
+3881[21]
P14687
🗺️ View shape: US presidential elections by county/Mathews County, Virginia[27]
Per capita income
+43918[26]
Water as percent of area
+65.9[25]
🏷️ Also known as
en Mathews County, VA en Mathews County, Virginia en Mathews County ar مقاطعة ماثيوز el κομητεία Μάθιους es condado de Mathews es Mathews County fa شهرستان متیوس fi Mathewsin piirikunta fr comté de Mathews fr Mathews County he מחוז מתיוס hu Mathews megye it contea di Mathews it Mathews County ja マシューズ郡 ko 매슈스군 pl Hrabstwo Mathews pt Mathews County ro Comitatul Mathews
🔖 Identifiers · 34
ISNI
0000000403913657
VIAF cluster ID
124340246
Library of Congress authority ID
n81010662
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
MATHEWS COUNTY COURTHOUSE SQUARE.jpg ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
20988
Ballotpedia ID
Mathews_County,_Virginia
FIPS 6-4 ID
51115
Facebook username
MathewsCountyVA
Freebase ID
/m/0mnh2
GADM ID
USA.47.80_1
GNIS Feature ID
1480145
GeoNames ID
4771977
Show all 34 identifiers +22
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
1002647
HASC
US.VA.MT
INaturalist place ID
736
KBpedia ID
MathewsCountyVirginia
KnowWhereGraph entity ID
administrativeRegion.USA.51115
MusicBrainz area ID
73ca44a1-547c-48b8-a159-b0753e54b1c9
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007548033805171
OBO Gazetteer ID
00050588
OSM Name Suggestion Index ID
mathewscounty-414f19
OpenHistoricalMap relation ID
2793901
OpenStreetMap relation ID
2534190
Our Campaigns container ID
5538
Ringgold ID
143622
Taxonomicon ID
1808229
Topic's main category
Category:Mathews County, Virginia
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10036548
UMLS CUI
C3827365
Who's on First ID
102087289
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["AdministrativeDivision", {"MathewsCounty", "Virginia", "UnitedStates"}]
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJcWtxFDfFp6rQCqdJg9Xd
X (Twitter) username
mathewscountyva
Yale LUX ID
place/9caeea1a-9d3a-4e01-b0b7-4590e05d8881
📚 Sources · 1
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Elevation above sea levelP2044
1 m 2026-09-26 A/ADM2 · US GeoNames (CC BY 4.0) as of 2026-09-26
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Source
GeoNames
Edition
20260926 · as of 2026-09-26
Licence
CC BY 4.0
Credit
CC BY 4.0 — attribution: GeoNames (www.geonames.org), licensed under CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Values as shipped.
Bronze
1da92a6323a5fec3… admin1CodesASCII.txt +9 files
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🔗 Connections
Shares border with 3
Gloucester County, York County, Middlesex County
← Shares border with 3
Gloucester County, York County, Middlesex County
Contained subdivisions 2
Mathews, Gwynn
Capital 1
Mathews
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Mathews County, Virginia
Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Mathews
Country 1
United States
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Virginia
Located in/on physical feature 1
Middle Peninsula
People who died here 1
Stanford Parris
Topic's main category 1
Category:Mathews County, Virginia
← Capital of 1
Mathews
← Category combines topics 1
Category:People from Mathews County, Virginia
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Mathews County, Virginia
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Virginia
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References

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Direct Wikidata claims

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  6. [7] ↑ . City House, County House. wikidata.org.
  7. [1] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  8. [8] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  9. [9] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  10. [10] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  12. [12] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  13. [13] ↑ . 2010 United States Census. Retrieved . census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  14. [14] ↑ . census.gov. census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  15. [15] ↑ . census.gov. census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  16. [16] ↑ . census.gov. census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  17. [17] ↑ . census.gov. census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  18. [18] ↑ . Population Estimates Program. census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  19. [19] ↑ . 2020 United States Census. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [20] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  21. [21] ↑ . 2016–2020 American Community Survey. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  22. [22] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  23. [23] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  24. [24] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  25. [25] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  26. [26] ↑ . 2016–2020 American Community Survey. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  27. [27] ↑ . wikidata.org.

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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. 3d ago · Eihel · 2026-11-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    OSM Name Suggestion Index ID → mathewscounty-414f19
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ OSM Name Suggestion Index ID: mathewscounty-414f19, #temporary_batch_1793752567616; Useless: a value is not referenced by the property's own associated item."
  2. 3d ago · Eihel · 2026-11-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Wikipedia languages → ['ar', 'bar', 'bpy', 'cdo', 'ce', 'ceb', 'cy', 'de', 'el', 'en', 'es', 'eu', 'fa
    OSM Name Suggestion Index ID → mathewscounty-414f19
    Claims rich → —
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ OSM Name Suggestion Index ID: mathewscounty-414f19, #temporary_batch_1793752567616"
  3. 9w ago · Theklan · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14687 → Data:US presidential elections by county/Mathews County, Vir
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ P14687: Data:US presidential elections by county/Mathews County, Virginia.tab, Link US presidential election dataset (P14687, subject: United States president"
  4. 13w ago · JuxtaposedJacob · 2026-08-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Basic form of government → County Commission
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/45905|batch #45905]]: county forms"
  5. 17w ago · UKChris-wiki · 2026-07-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    UMLS CUI → C3827365
    Taxonomicon ID → 1808229
    OBO Gazetteer ID → 00050588
    OSM Name Suggestion Index ID → mathewscounty-414f19
    "/* wbremoveclaims-remove:1| */ OSM Name Suggestion Index ID: mathewscounty-d70331, Updated name-suggestion-index related claims, see https://nsi.guide for project details."
  6. 25w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Facebook username → MathewsCountyVA
    NCI Thesaurus ID → C110564
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ NCI Thesaurus ID: C110564, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1778695477825"
  7. 25w ago · Hwierzbicki · 2026-05-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Population → {'amount': '+8978'}, {'amount': '+8972'}, {'amount': '+8951'} +4
    Category for maps or plans → Category:Maps of Mathews County, Virginia
    Instance of → —
    Website → —
    + 28 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ Official website: https://www.mathewscountyva.gov/"
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