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Bedford County, Virginia

Use county identifiers when organizing your own venue, travel or local sports research. A geographic label helps distinguish locations; it is not evidence for a team forecast, a price edge or a betting result.

County FIPS51019Five-digit Census identifier
Population83,059July 1, 2025 estimate
Land area760.12 mi²2025 Gazetteer
Population per land mi²109.27Calculated from the cited population and land area

Identify the right place

Bedford County is a county or county equivalent in Virginia. Its five-digit FIPS code is 51019; preserve the leading zero when storing county codes as text. The Gazetteer lists 16.24 square miles of water and a representative point at 37.312257, -79.527223. That point identifies the geography; it is not a street address or a site boundary.

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Geographic context for sports research checklist

  1. Verify a venue location from its official listing.
  2. Keep travel or market assumptions separate from observed game data.
  3. Evaluate a sports method with records from the relevant competition and time period.

County population and area are reference facts, not sports performance signals.

Sources and interpretation

Geography: 2025 U.S. Census Gazetteer. Population: Vintage 2025 estimates, July 1, 2025. County equivalents include parishes, boroughs, independent cities and planning regions. Puerto Rico population is not supplied by this population file.

Population is an estimate, not a live count. Gazetteer land and water measures describe the geographic area; they do not measure service availability, households, businesses or market demand. Match the FIPS code and source vintage when joining another dataset.

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