๐บ๐ธ Stafford is a place (listed as Stafford Courthouse) in and the county seat of Stafford County in the northern part of the U.S. Commonwealth of Virginia. It lies 10 miles (16ย km) north of Fredericksburg, approximately 40 miles (64ย km) south of Washington, D.C., and about 60 miles (97ย km) north of Richmond, the state capital. Marine Corps Base Quantico is located north of the community. Stafford Courthouse is located at the intersections of U.S. Route 1 and Courthouse Road.
1History English sea captain Samuel Argall abducted Pocahontas near this area in April 1613 in an attempt to secure release of some English prisoners held by her father. She married English colonist John Rolfe in 1614. They sailed in 1616 to England where Pocahontas died in 1617.
It was a stop on the Richmond, Fredericksburg and Potomac Railroad in the nineteenth Century; CSX Transportation is the RF&P's successor today.
Accokeek Furnace Archeological Site, Aquia Church, Public Quarry at Government Island, Redoubt No. 2, and Stafford Training School are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
1Stafford has a population of over 4,320 people. Stafford also forms the centre of the wider Stafford County which has a population of over 128,984 people.
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๐ด๓ ง๓ ข๓ ฅ๓ ฎ๓ ง๓ ฟ Stafford, England๐ฏ๐ต Ishinomaki 38.425
๐บ๐ธ Harrisonburg 38.433
๐บ๐ธ Santa Rosa 38.44
๐บ๐ธ Caรฑon City 38.442
๐บ๐ธ Huntington 38.417
๐น๐ท Kemalpaลa 38.417
๐ช๐ธ Sant Vicent del Raspeig 38.383
๐ช๐ธ San Vicente del Raspeig 38.383
๐จ๐ฆ Belleville -77.382
๐บ๐ธ Greenville -77.367
๐บ๐ธ Fairfax County -77.28
๐บ๐ธ Henrico County -77.4
๐บ๐ธ Petersburg -77.4
๐บ๐ธ Jacksonville -77.425
๐บ๐ธ Centreville -77.465
๐บ๐ธ Fredericksburg -77.471
๐ฏ๐ฒ Mandeville -77.5
๐บ๐ธ Chesterfield -77.5
Locations Near: Stafford -77.4,38.4167
๐บ๐ธ Fredericksburg -77.471,38.302 d: 14.2
๐บ๐ธ Woodbridge -77.25,38.633 d: 27.4
๐บ๐ธ Manassas -77.453,38.768 d: 39.3
๐บ๐ธ Burke -77.271,38.782 d: 42.1
๐บ๐ธ Fairfax County -77.28,38.83 d: 47.1
๐บ๐ธ Centreville -77.465,38.845 d: 48
๐บ๐ธ Fairfax -77.3,38.85 d: 49
๐บ๐ธ La Plata -76.967,38.533 d: 39.9
Antipodal to: Stafford 102.6,-38.417
๐ฆ๐บ Bunbury 115.637,-33.327 d: 18712.9
๐ฆ๐บ Mandurah 115.721,-32.529 d: 18660.4
๐ฆ๐บ Rockingham 115.717,-32.267 d: 18644.8
๐ฆ๐บ City of Cockburn 115.833,-32.167 d: 18629.6
๐ฆ๐บ Vincent 115.834,-31.936 d: 18615.1
๐ฆ๐บ Perth 115.86,-31.956 d: 18614.3
๐ฆ๐บ Cannington 115.934,-32.017 d: 18612.4
๐ฆ๐บ Wanneroo 115.803,-31.747 d: 18605.4