Roanoke County

county in Virginia, United States
AdministrativeArea county_of_virginia Q513968

Facts

21 properties

Identity

Instance of
county of Virginia
Inception
1838[16]
Native label
Roanoke County

Population and size

Area
+650
Population
97k (92k–97k, n=7)[19][20][21][22][23]
More facts +11
Basic form of government
County Charter[14]
Capital
Salem[5]
Different from
Roanoke
NCI Thesaurus ID
C110584
Number of households
+38234
Per capita income
+37859
Water as percent of area
+0.3
🏷️ Also known as
en Roanoke County en Roanoke County, VA en Roanoke County, Virginia ar مقاطعة رونوك ar مقاطعة رونوك، فيرجينيا ar مقاطعه رونوك، فيرجينيا es Condado de Roanoke fa شهرستان روانوک fi Roanoken piirikunta fr comté de Roanoke he מחוז רואנוק hu Roanoke megye it contea di Roanoke ja ロアノーク郡 ko 로어노크군 pl Hrabstwo Roanoke ro Comitatul Roanoke ru Роанок tr Roanoke County tr Roanoke County, Va.
🔖 Identifiers · 32
VIAF cluster ID
150123888
Library of Congress authority ID
n82143167
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Roanoke County courthouse.JPG ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
21009
Dewey Decimal Classification
2--755792
FAST ID
1222306
FIPS 6-4 ID
51161
Freebase ID
/m/0mn51
GNIS Feature ID
1480165
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GeoNames ID
4782181
Getty Thesaurus of Geographic Names ID
7014344
HASC
US.VA.RE
INaturalist place ID
2115
KnowWhereGraph entity ID
administrativeRegion.USA.51161
National Library of Israel J9U ID
987007564500805171
OBO Gazetteer ID
00136519
OpenHistoricalMap relation ID
2794583
OpenStreetMap relation ID
2532633
Our Campaigns container ID
5558
Ringgold ID
114803
Taxonomicon ID
1808249
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10045901
UMLS CUI
C3828316
Who's on First ID
102084967
WorldCat Entities ID
E39PBJwtppJyyP9vTQjv646HYP
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Contained subdivisions 4
People born here 2
← Capital of 2
← Category combines topics 2
Capital 1
Category of associated people 1
Country 1
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Summary

Roanoke County is a county of Virginia[1].

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Physical Characteristics

Roanoke County covers an area of {'amount': '+650'}[24]. Population counts include {'amount': '+92376'}[19], {'amount': '+92483'}[20], {'amount': '+92964'}[21], {'amount': '+92932'}[22], {'amount': '+93524'}[23], and {'amount': '+94409'}[25].

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Class ancestry

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  1. 8w ago · Theklan · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    P14687 → Data:US presidential elections by county/Roanoke County, Vir
    "/* wbsetclaim-create:2||1 */ P14687: Data:US presidential elections by county/Roanoke County, Virginia.tab, Link US presidential election dataset (P14687, subject: United States president"
  2. 12w ago · JuxtaposedJacob · 2026-08-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Basic form of government → County Charter
    "/* wbeditentity-update:0| */ QuickStatements 3.0 [[:toollabs:qs-dev/batch/45905|batch #45905]]: county forms"
  3. 23w ago · Mxn · 2026-05-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    UMLS CUI → C3828316
    Member of → GovAI Coalition
    Taxonomicon ID → 1808249
    OBO Gazetteer ID → 00136519
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ Member of: GovAI Coalition, [[:toollabs:quickstatements/#/batch/258464|batch #258464]]"
  4. 25w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → county of Virginia
    Official website → http://www.roanokecountyva.gov
    Instance of → —
    Located in the administrative territorial entity → Virginia
    + 26 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "/* wbcreateclaim-create:1| */ NCI Thesaurus ID: C110584, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1778695477825"
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