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Surry County, Virginia

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20historic places

—earliest paper

1652formed

6,561pop. 2020

12cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 20 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1966; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Surry, Bacon's Castle, Scotland.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Virginia is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Surry titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

4 of 20 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

20 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Bacon's Castle NHL	Bacon's Castle	Building	1966
Cedar Ridge	Disputanta	Building	2000
Chippokes Plantation	Jamestown	District	1969
Enos House	Surry	Building	1977
Four Mile Tree	Surry	Building	1970
Glebe House of Southwark Parish	Spring Grove	Building	1976
Melville	Surry	Building	1980
Montpelier	Cabin Point	Building	1980
Old Brick Church	Bacon's Castle	Site	1986
Pleasant Point	Scotland	Building	1976
Rich Neck Farm	Surry	Building	1980
Rogers' Store	Surry	Building	2002
Second Southwark Church Archeological Site (44SY65)	Surry	Site	1984
Smith's Fort	Surry	Site	1970
Snow Hill	Gwaltney Corner	Building	1979
Surry County Courthouse Complex	Surry	Building	1986
Swann's Point Plantation Site	Scotland	Site	1975
Town of Surry Historic District	Surry	District	2017
Walnut Valley	Highgate	District	2013
Warren House	Surry	Building	1973

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Surry was formed in 1652 (1652-12-31) from James City.

[1652] SURRY created from JAMES CITY.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Surry County population from 1790 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1790	1800	1820	1840	1860	1880	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
6,227	6,535	6,594	6,480	6,133	7,391	8,469	9,305	6,193	6,220	6,220	6,046	6,829	6,561

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

12 cemeteries and 3 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 12 of 12 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Booker T Memorial Park	36.9938	-76.94449
Cypress Baptist Church Cemetery	37.04747	-76.85647
Hickory Grove Memorial Cemetery	37.08913	-76.7198
Jones Cemetery	37.08697	-76.7252
Lower Surry Cemetery	37.10878	-76.73568
Moores Swamp Cemetery	37.06681	-76.85079
Mount Moriah Cemetery	37.03419	-76.84439
Oakwood Cemetery	37.14225	-76.83893
Poplar Lawn Cemetery	37.14469	-76.76149
Saint Anne's Cemetery	37.23181	-76.96302
Swanns Point Plantation Cemetery	37.20075	-76.81811
Wier Neck Cemetery	37.16153	-76.84774

Historical populated places — 3 of 3

Name	Lat	Lon
Ingersoll	37.19681	-76.81524
Newtown	37.13459	-76.81829
Sexton	37.05293	-76.92329

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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