Staunton, Virginia (usa)

Staunton, Virginia

Staunton, Virginia ranks 5,013th in number of biographies on Pantheon, behind Geumjeong District, Carlton, Victoria, and Neptune City, New Jersey. Memorable people born in Staunton, Virginia include Woodrow Wilson, Francis Collins, and William Haines. Staunton, Virginia has been the birth place of many politicians, and biologists. Staunton, Virginia is located in United States.

Staunton is an independent city in the U.S. Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 25,750. In Virginia, independent cities are separate jurisdictions from the counties that surround them, so the government offices of Augusta County are in Verona, which is contiguous to Staunton. Staunton is a principal city of the Staunton-Waynesboro Metropolitan Statistical Area, which had a 2010 population of 118,502. Staunton is known for being the birthplace of Woodrow Wilson, the 28th U.S. president, and as the home of Mary Baldwin University, historically a women's college. The city is also home to Stuart Hall, a private co-ed preparatory school, as well as the Virginia School for the Deaf and Blind. It was the first city in the United States with a fully defined city manager system. Read more on Wikipedia