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Goochland County

Goochland County, Virginia
Goochland County Courthouse, East Side of U.S. Route 522, Goochland, (Goochland County, Virginia).jpg
Goochland County Courthouse
Seal of Goochland County, Virginia
Seal
Map of Virginia highlighting Goochland County
Location in the U.S. state of Virginia
Map of the United States highlighting Virginia
Virginia's location in the U.S.
Founded 1728
Named for Sir William Gooch
Seat Goochland
Area
 • Total 290 sq mi (751 km2)
 • Land 281 sq mi (728 km2)
 • Water 8 sq mi (21 km2), 2.9%
Population (est.)
 • (2015) 22,253
 • Density 77/sq mi (30/km²)
Congressional district 7th
Time zone Eastern: UTC-5/-4
Website www.co.goochland.va.us

Goochland County is a county located in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 21,717. Its county seat is Goochland.

Goochland County is included in the Greater Richmond Region

Native Americans had lived along the waterways for several thousand years. Siouan-speaking tribes were the ones encountered by English colonists. Their numbers were sharply reduced by European infectious diseases to which they had no immunity, which caused widespread social disruption.

In 1634, the colonial government organized the territory of Virginia into eight shires, to be governed as shires in England. Henrico was one of these shires.

Goochland was founded in 1728 as the first county formed from Henrico shire, followed by Chesterfield County in 1749. Goochland originally included all of the land from Tuckahoe Creek, on both sides of the James River, west as far as the Blue Ridge Mountains.

Goochland was named for Sir William Gooch, 1st Baronet, the royal lieutenant governor from 1727 to 1749, at which time the nominal governor, the Earl of Albemarle, remained in England. As acting royal governor, Gooch promoted settlement of the Virginia backcountry as a means to insulate the Virginia colony from Native American and New France settlements in the Ohio Country


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