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Staunton

independent city in Virginia, United States
Place Independent City in the United States Q502250

Facts

26 properties

Identity

Instance of
independent city in the United States, independent city in Virginia[5]
Inception
1747[13]
Official website
www.staunton.va.us[14]
Native label
Staunton[28]
Official name
Staunton[26]

Location

Country
United States[2]
Coordinate location
🗺️ 38.158°, -79.076°
Located in the administrative territorial entity
Virginia[1]
Shares border with
Augusta County[6]

Population and size

Area
51.85861 km², 51.890711 km² (2010)[31][32]
Elevation above sea level
432 m[30]
Population
26k (24k–26k, n=7)[15][16][17][18][19][20][21]

Codes

Local dialing code
540[12]
Postal code
24401, 24402[10][11]
More facts +12
Capital of
Augusta County[25]
Basic form of government
council–manager government[7]
Described by source
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition, The New Student's Reference Work[23][24]
Head of government
Stephen W. Claffey (2023–present), Michele Edwards (2025–present)[3][4]
Located in the statistical territorial entity
Staunton–Waynesboro metropolitan area[35]
NCI Thesaurus ID
C110636[29]
Number of households
10,638 (2020)[27]
Office held by the head of government
Mayor of Staunton, Virginia[22]
Per capita income
30,746 USD (2020)[36]
Territory overlaps
Staunton–Waynesboro urban area[34]
Twinned administrative body
Dabas, Vișeu de Sus[8][9]
Water as percent of area
0.2991% (2010)[33]
🏷️ Also known as
en Staunton, VA en Staunton en Staunton, Virginia ar ستونتون el Στόντον es Staunton (Virginia) fa استنتون fr Municipalité de Staunton he סטאונטון ja スタントン ko 스톤턴 ro Staunton,Virginia ru Стонтон zh 斯汤顿 zh 斯湯頓
🔖 Identifiers · 33
ISNI
0000000403910958
Image (Wikimedia Commons)
Downtown Staunton VA USA.jpg ↗
ArchINFORM location ID
16528
Curlie ID
Regional/North_America/United_States/Virginia/Localities/S/Staunton/
Dewey Decimal Classification
2--755911
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID
place/Staunton
FIPS 55-3 (locations in the US)
51-75216
FIPS 6-4 ID
51790
FactGrid item ID
Zygmunt Janiszewski
Freebase ID
/m/034lk7
GNIS Feature ID
1789075, 1500154
GeoNames ID
4787440, 4787467
Show all 33 identifiers +21
HASC
US.VA.SU
INaturalist place ID
13452
J9U entity ID
987007554799005171
MusicBrainz area ID
573a0f2f-c0b7-40dd-9f65-dedbfda6882e
OSM Name Suggestion Index ID
cityofstaunton-414f19, cityofstaunton-9e1f3f, cityofstaunton-23e3a3
OpenHistoricalMap relation ID
2794569
OpenStreetMap relation ID
3864617
Our Campaigns container ID
5611
Quora topic ID
Staunton-VA
Ringgold ID
141614
SNARC ID
Klaus Riedel
Subreddit
staunton
Taxonomicon ID
1808188
Thomas Jefferson Encyclopedia ID
staunton-virginia
Topic's main category
Category:Staunton, Virginia
U.S. National Archives Identifier
10045858
UMLS CUI
C3827948
UN/LOCODE
USSHD
Who's on First ID
101728733
Wolfram Language entity code
Entity["AdministrativeDivision", {"StauntonIndependentCity", "Virginia", "UnitedStates"}]
Yale LUX ID
place/c7994469-a09b-426a-9dc6-e1464057589c

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🔗 Connections
People born here 23
Woodrow Wilson, Francis Collins, William Haines, John Breckinridge, Joseph W. Fifer, John Brown, Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart, John D. Imboden +15 more
People who died here 10
Stuart Margolin, Alexander Hugh Holmes Stuart, William Dorsey Pender, John Echols, Edward Echols, Jedediah Hotchkiss, John Brown Baldwin, Bertha von Hillern +2 more
← Place of publication 9
The News Leader, Augusta County Argus, Staunton Dispatch-News, Staunton Spectator, Staunton Spectator and Vindicator, Staunton Vindicator, The Old Dominion Sun, The Valley Virginian +1 more
Contained subdivisions 3
Woodrow Wilson Presidential Library, Hotel 24 South, The News Leader
Twinned administrative body 2
Vișeu de Sus, Dabas
← Category combines topics 2
Category:People from Staunton, Virginia, Category:Births in Staunton, Virginia
← Twinned administrative body 2
Vișeu de Sus, Dabas
Capital of 1
Augusta County
Category for people born here 1
Category:Births in Staunton, Virginia
Category of associated people 1
Category:People from Staunton, Virginia
Country 1
United States
Described by source 1
Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
FactGrid item ID 1
Zygmunt Janiszewski
Instance of 1
independent city in the United States
Located in the administrative territorial entity 1
Virginia
Located in time zone 1
Eastern Time Zone
SNARC ID 1
Klaus Riedel
Shares border with 1
Augusta County
Topic's main category 1
Category:Staunton, Virginia
← Capital 1
Augusta County
← Category's main topic 1
Category:Staunton, Virginia
← Contains the administrative territorial entity 1
Virginia
← Headquarters location 1
Camp Quest
← Place of burial 1
Bertha von Hillern
← Place served by transport hub 1
Shenandoah Valley Regional Airport
← Shares border with 1
Augusta County
← Work location 1
John D. Imboden
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Related Entities

Francis Collins United States Virginia Woodrow Wilson

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Direct Wikidata claims

  1. [3] ↑ . ci.staunton.va.us. Retrieved . ci.staunton.va.us. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  2. [4] ↑ . ci.staunton.va.us. Retrieved . ci.staunton.va.us. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  3. [2] ↑ . archINFORM. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
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  19. [19] ↑ . Population Estimates Program. census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  20. [20] ↑ . 2010 U.S. Gazetteer Files. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
  21. [21] ↑ . 2020 United States Census. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  27. [27] ↑ . 2016–2020 American Community Survey. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: wikidata.org.
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  29. [29] ↑ . wikidata.org.
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  31. [31] ↑ . 2016 U.S. Gazetteer Files. wikidata.org.
  32. [32] ↑ . 2010 U.S. Gazetteer Files. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  33. [33] ↑ . 2010 U.S. Gazetteer Files. Retrieved . wikidata.org.
  34. [34] ↑ . 2023 U.S. Gazetteer Files. wikidata.org.
  35. [35] ↑ . wikidata.org.
  36. [36] ↑ . 2016–2020 American Community Survey. Retrieved . data.census.gov. Provenance: 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. 9d ago · Eihel · 2026-11-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    OSM Name Suggestion Index ID → cityofstaunton-414f19, cityofstaunton-9e1f3f, cityofstaunton-23e3a3
    "Removed claim: OSM Name Suggestion Index ID: cityofstaunton-23e3a3, #temporary_batch_1793752567616"
  2. 9d ago · Eihel · 2026-11-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    OSM Name Suggestion Index ID → cityofstaunton-414f19, cityofstaunton-9e1f3f, cityofstaunton-23e3a3
    "Created claim: OSM Name Suggestion Index ID: cityofstaunton-9e1f3f, #temporary_batch_1793752567616; Useless: a value is not referenced by the property's own associated item."
  3. 9d ago · Eihel · 2026-11-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    OSM Name Suggestion Index ID → cityofstaunton-414f19, cityofstaunton-9e1f3f, cityofstaunton-23e3a3
    "Removed claim: OSM Name Suggestion Index ID: cityofstaunton-9e1f3f, #temporary_batch_1793752567616"
  4. 9d ago · Eihel · 2026-11-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    OSM Name Suggestion Index ID → cityofstaunton-414f19, cityofstaunton-9e1f3f, cityofstaunton-23e3a3
    "Created claim: OSM Name Suggestion Index ID: cityofstaunton-414f19, #temporary_batch_1793752567616; Useless: a value is not referenced by the property's own associated item."
  5. 9d ago · Eihel · 2026-11-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    OSM Name Suggestion Index ID → cityofstaunton-414f19, cityofstaunton-9e1f3f, cityofstaunton-23e3a3
    "Removed claim: OSM Name Suggestion Index ID: cityofstaunton-414f19, #temporary_batch_1793752567616"
  6. 10w ago · Theklan · 2026-09-04 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Tabular data series → Data:US presidential elections by county/Staunton, Virginia.
    "Created claim: Tabular data series: Data:US presidential elections by county/Staunton, Virginia.tab, Link US presidential election dataset (P14687, subject: United States presidential el"
  7. 11w ago · JuxtaposedJacob · 2026-08-24 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → independent city in the United States, independent city in Virginia
    Basic form of government → council–manager government
    Located in time zone → —
    "Created claim: Instance of: independent city in Virginia, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1787553646073"
  8. 18w ago · UKChris-wiki · 2026-07-11 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    OSM Name Suggestion Index ID → cityofstaunton-414f19, cityofstaunton-9e1f3f, cityofstaunton-23e3a3
    "Removed claim: OSM Name Suggestion Index ID: cityofstaunton-d70331, Updated name-suggestion-index related claims, see https://nsi.guide for project details."
  9. 26w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    UMLS CUI → C3827948
    Taxonomicon ID → 1808188
    "Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #31546"
  10. 26w ago · Mahir256 · 2026-05-13 view diff on Wikidata ↗
    Instance of → independent city in the United States, independent city in Virginia
    Capital of → Augusta County
    Official website → http://www.staunton.va.us/
    Located in the statistical territorial entity → Staunton–Waynesboro metropolitan area
    + 22 other properties edited (see Wikidata diff for full list)
    "Created claim: NCI Thesaurus ID: C110636, #quickstatements; #temporary_batch_1778695477825"
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