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Home » Soil And Water » Soil and Water Conservation Districts List

Virginia's SWCDs by locality


Use the table below the map to find your Soil and Water Conservation District. You can filter the table's content and sort it by clicking on a column header.

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Virginia's SWCDs


No. SWCDs Locality
01 Tidewater Gloucester; Mathews; Middlesex
02 Thomas Jefferson: (Charlottesville) Albemarle; Fluvanna; Louisa; Nelson; Charlottesville (City)
03 Southside Charlotte; Lunenburg
04 Natural Bridge: (Buena Vista, Lexington) Buena Vista (City); Lexington (City); Rockbridge
05 Piedmont Amelia; Nottoway; Prince Edward
06 Blue Ridge; (Roanoke) Franklin; Henry; Roanoke; Roanoke (City)
07 Culpeper Culpeper; Greene; Madison; Orange; Rappahannock
08 Northern Neck Lancaster; Northumberland; Richmond; Westmoreland
09 Shenandoah Valley: (Harrisonburg) Harrisonburg (City); Page; Rockingham
10 Robert E. Lee (Lynchburg) Amherst; Appomattox; Campbell; Lynchburg (City)
11 New River (Galax) Carroll; Galax (City); Grayson
12 James River Chesterfield; Prince George
13 Lord Fairfax: (Winchester) Clarke; Frederick; Shenandoah; Warren; Winchester (City)
14 Skyline Floyd; Giles; Montgomery; Pulaski
15 Peanut (Suffolk) Isle of Wight; Suffolk (City); Surry
16 Mountain (Covington) Alleghany; Bath; Covington (City); Highland
17 Tri-County/City (Fredericksburg) Fredericksburg (City); King George; Spotsylvania; Stafford
18 Colonial (Williamsburg) Charles City; James City; New Kent; Williamsburg (City); York
19 Chowan Basin Greensville; Southampton; Sussex
20 Eastern Shore Accomack; Northampton
21 Northern Virginia Fairfax
22 Virginia Dare (Chesapeake, Virginia Beach) Chesapeake (City); Virginia Beach (City)
23 Holston River Washington
24 Daniel Boone Lee
25 Clinch Valley Russell
26 Scott County Scott
27 Lonesome Pine Dickenson; Wise
28 Evergreen Smyth
29 Tazewell Tazewell
30 Hanover-Caroline Caroline; Hanover
31 Pittsylvania Pittsylvania
32 John Marshall Fauquier
33 Halifax Halifax
34 Peaks of Otter (Bedford) Bedford; Bedford (City)
35 Prince William Prince William
36 Loudoun Loudoun
37 Big Walker Bland; Wythe
38 Monacan Goochland; Powhatan
39 Peter Francisco Buckingham; Cumberland
40 Henricopolis Henrico
41 Headwaters (Staunton, Waynesboro) Augusta; Staunton (City); Waynesboro (City)
42 Appomattox River: (Petersburg) Dinwiddie; Petersburg (City)
43 Three Rivers Essex; King & Queen; King William
44 Patrick Patrick
45 Mountain Castles Botetourt; Craig
46 Lake Country Brunswick; Mecklenburg
47 Big Sandy Buchanan

Note: Cities within SWCDs are listed in parentheses after the appropriate district.

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