مقاطعة يورك، ڤرجينيا

مقاطعة يورك، ڤرجينيا
مقاطعة
York County Courthouse
Seal
الموقع في ولاية Virginia
الإحداثيات: 37°13′N 76°26′W
البلد	الولايات المتحدة
الولاية	ڤرجينيا
تأسست	1643
السمِيْ	York
المقر	Yorktown
أكبر community	Grafton
المساحة
• الإجمالي	215 ميل² (560 كم²)
البر	105 ميل² (270 كم²)
الماء	110 ميل² (300 كم²)  51.3%
التعداد  (2020)
• الإجمالي	70٬045
• Estimate  (2025)	71٬374 ▲
• الكثافة	670/sq mi (260/km2)
منطقة التوقيت	UTC−5 (Eastern)
• الصيف (التوقيت الصيفي)	UTC−4 (EDT)
Congressional district	1st
الموقع الإلكتروني	www.yorkcounty.gov

مقاطعة يورك إنگليزية: York County هي إحدى المقاطعات في ولاية ڤرجينيا في الولايات المتحدة، وتقع في Tidewater. As of the 2020 United States census, the population was 70,045. The county seat is the unincorporated town of Yorktown.

Located on the north side of the Virginia Peninsula, with the York River as its northern border, York County is included in the Virginia Beach–Norfolk–Newport News, VA–NC Metropolitan Statistical Area.

York County contains many tributaries of the York River. It shares land borders with the independent cities of Williamsburg, Newport News, Hampton, and Poquoson, as well as James City County, and shares a border along the York River with Gloucester County.

Formed in 1634 as Charles River Shire, one of the eight original shires (counties) of the Virginia Colony, and renamed York County in 1643, York County is one of the oldest counties in the United States. Yorktown is one of the three points of the Historic Triangle of Colonial Virginia. It is the site of the last battle and surrender of British forces in 1781 at the conclusion of the American Revolutionary War, when the patriots gained independence from Great Britain.

In modern times, several important U.S. military installations have been developed in the county. It also has miles of waterfront residential and recreational areas. York County adjoins the Busch Gardens Williamsburg theme park and includes within its borders the affiliated Water Country USA water park, the Yorktown Riverfront area, Yorktown Battlefield and Visitor Center and American Revolution Museum at Yorktown. Yorktown is linked by the National Park Service's bucolic Colonial Parkway with Colonial Williamsburg and historic attractions at Jamestown, Virginia. Heritage tourism to the Historic Triangle draws international visitors and is a major economic activity for the county.

 الحكومة

The county is traditionally organized per Virginia Law. It is governed by a Board of Supervisors, who are elected for four-year terms by voters from each of the county's five districts. The Board appoints a County Administrator to act as the administrative head of the county. The current county administrator is Neil Morgan.

 York County Board of Supervisors

• District 1: Douglas R. Holroyd (Vice Chairman)
• District 2: Sheila S. Noll (Chairwoman)
• District 3: Wayne Drewry
• District 4: G. Stephen Roane Jr.
• District 5: Thomas G. Shepperd Jr.

 York County School Board

• District 1: Mark J. Shafer
• District 2: Zoran Pajevic
• District 3: Kimberly S. Goodwin (Chairwoman)
• District 4: James E. Richardson (Vice Chairman)
• District 5: Lynda J. Fairman

 Other elected officials

• Sheriff: Ron Montgomery
• Commonwealth's Attorney: Krystyn Reid
• Circuit Court Clerk: Kristen N. Nelson
• Commissioner of the Revenue: Sarah K. Webb
• Treasurer: Candice D. Kelley

 السياسة

York County generally votes for Republican candidates in statewide elections, though the county has recently become less strongly Republican. The county voted for Republican Herbert Hoover in 1928 in a landslide. This indicates that York County is almost entirely Protestant, and reacted poorly to Catholic Democrat Al Smith's candidacy in 1928.

Since 1968, only three Democratic candidates have won more than 45% of the vote: Jimmy Carter in 1976, Joe Biden in 2020, and Kamala Harris in 2024. Harris won 46% of the vote in the county, the highest percentage since 1964.

Mark Warner carried York County in his 2008 election to the U.S. Senate. In 2025, Abigail Spanberger won a majority of the vote in the county, although Republican candidates carried it in the lieutenant gubernatorial and attorney general elections.

نتائج الانتخابات الرئاسية الأمريكية في York County, Virginia York County, Virginia}}

السنة	الجمهوري		الديمقراطي		حزب ثالث
	رقم.	%	رقم.	%	رقم.	%
1912	34	12٫27%	211	76٫17%	32	11٫55%
1916	51	17٫11%	247	82٫89%	0	0�00%
1920	92	24٫40%	281	74٫54%	4	1٫06%
1924	75	18٫99%	305	77٫22%	15	3٫80%
1928	642	76٫79%	194	23٫21%	0	0�00%
1932	309	38٫43%	457	56٫84%	38	4٫73%
1936	228	23٫08%	729	73٫79%	31	3٫14%
1940	177	18٫06%	787	80٫31%	16	1٫63%
1944	318	29٫01%	760	69٫34%	18	1٫64%
1948	418	30٫38%	826	60٫03%	132	9٫59%
1952	1,335	50٫53%	1,287	48٫71%	20	0٫76%
1956	1,759	60٫10%	1,064	36٫35%	104	3٫55%
1960	2,085	54٫94%	1,691	44٫56%	19	0٫50%
1964	2,992	46٫83%	3,385	52٫98%	12	0٫19%
1968	3,356	36٫93%	2,370	26٫08%	3,362	36٫99%
1972	7,745	74٫90%	2,302	22٫26%	294	2٫84%
1976	5,603	53٫61%	4,736	45٫32%	112	1٫07%
1980	6,744	55٫58%	4,532	37٫35%	857	7٫06%
1984	10,214	71٫24%	4,063	28٫34%	60	0٫42%
1988	11,103	69٫96%	4,639	29٫23%	129	0٫81%
1992	10,197	51٫07%	6,218	31٫14%	3,551	17٫79%
1996	11,396	54٫95%	7,731	37٫28%	1,611	7٫77%
2000	15,312	62٫29%	8,622	35٫07%	649	2٫64%
2004	19,396	64٫91%	10,276	34٫39%	208	0٫70%
2008	19,833	58٫51%	13,700	40٫42%	364	1٫07%
2012	20,204	59٫51%	13,183	38٫83%	566	1٫67%
2016	18,837	55٫21%	12,999	38٫10%	2,282	6٫69%
2020	20,241	52٫19%	17,683	45٫59%	863	2٫22%
2024	20,722	52٫13%	18,296	46٫03%	731	1٫84%
2020	1	33٫33%	1	33٫33%	1	33٫33%

 Education

York County School Division is the sole school district in the county.

 Elementary schools

• Bethel Manor ES
• Coventry ES
• Dare ES
• Grafton Bethel ES
• Magruder ES
• Mt. Vernon ES
• Seaford ES
• Tabb ES
• Waller Mill ES
• Yorktown ES
• Extend Center (Dare Elementary)

 Middle schools

• Grafton MS (connected to Grafton High School)
• Queens Lake MS
• Tabb MS
• Yorktown MS

 High schools

• Bruton HS
• Grafton HS (connected to Grafton Middle School)
• Tabb HS
• York HS
• York River Academy
• Virtual High School

 Military bases

York County is home to several large and important military facilities of the United States. Located along the York River, small portions of each base extend into adjacent James City County as well.

The Coast Guard Training Center Yorktown is there.

The Naval Weapons Station Yorktown was originally established during World War I by order of President Woodrow Wilson, and now includes the formerly separate Cheatham Annex Supply Complex. Camp Peary was established during World War II as a Seabee Training Base. As the war progressed, it became valuable to the Allied Forces to house sensitive prisoners-of-war from captured German naval vessels; it was important for Nazi authorities to be unaware of their capture, since that also meant secret code books thought lost-at sea may also have been compromised. Many of these POWs made Virginia and the United States their new homeland after the War. Separating these two large military reservations is Queen's Creek, which originates in the western reaches of the county and drains to the York River.

York County contains some former towns including Yorke, and a large number when the military reservations were created in the first half of the 20th century. These include the original Lackey (known locally as "the Reservation"), Halstead's Point, Penniman, Bigler's Mill, and Magruder. Many relocated residents and their descendants, many of whom were farmers and watermen, now live in such places as Yorktown, Gloucester, Lee Hall, Grove, and Lightfoot.

 See also

• National Register of Historic Places listings in York County, Virginia
• Moore House (Yorktown, Virginia)
• Kiskiack (Lee House)
• William Gooch Tomb and York Village Archeological Site

 المصادر

 منشورات

• McCartney, Martha W. (1977) James City County: Keystone of the Commonwealth; James City County, Virginia; Donning and Company; ISBN 0-89865-999-X

 وصلات خارجية

• "Cast Down Your Buckets Where You Are" An Ethnohistorical Study of the African-American Community on the Lands of the Yorktown Naval Weapons Station 1865–1918
• County website
• Hampton Roads Economic Development Alliance - serving York County