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History of Blacksburg, Virginia

Blacksburg is an incorporated town located in Montgomery County, Virginia|Montgomery County, Virginia. As of the 2000 census, the town had a total population of 39,573. Blacksburg, Christiansburg, Virginia|Christiansburg, and Radford, Virginia|Radford are the three principal jurisdictions of the Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford United States metropolitan area|Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses those jurisdictions and all of Montgomery County for statistical purposes.

Blacksburg is dominated economically and demographically by the presence of Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University (better known as Virginia Tech), a Virginia Morrill Land-Grant Colleges Act|land-grant university.


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