Virginia — Config Review
Profile config
Judicial Regions31
Athletic Sections24
Concepts (11)
Virginia
Local NameVirginia
Has Active GovernmentYes
Default Body NameGeneral Assembly
Executive TitleGovernor
SubdivisionsCounties and Independent Cities
Additional Subdivisions
Major CitiesVirginia Beach, Norfolk, Chesapeake, Richmond, Newport News, Alexandria, Hampton, Roanoke, Charlottesville
County
Local NameCounty
Has Active GovernmentYes
Default Body NameBoard of Supervisors
Executive RequiredNo
SubdivisionsTowns
Legislative CommitteesYes
Committees LabelCommittees
Independent City
Local NameIndependent City
Has Active GovernmentYes
Default Body NameCity Council
Executive TitleMayor
Governancecouncil-manager, strong-mayor
Governance Exceptions
Strong-MayorRichmond
SubdivisionsNo
Town
Local NameTown
Has Active GovernmentYes
Default Body NameTown Council
Executive TitleMayor
Executive RequiredNo
SubdivisionsNo
School Division
Local NameSchool Division
Has Active GovernmentYes
Default Body NameSchool Board
Region
Local NameRegion
Parent Org NameVHSL
Has Active GovernmentNo
House of Delegates District
Local NameHouse of Delegates District
Local AbbrevHD
Has Active GovernmentNo
Senate District
Local NameSenate District
Local AbbrevSD
Has Active GovernmentNo
Congressional District
Local NameCongressional District
Local AbbrevCD
Has Active GovernmentNo
Judicial Circuit
Local NameJudicial Circuit
Has Active GovernmentNo
Special District
Local NameSpecial District
Has Active GovernmentYes
Governance (2)
Council-Manager
Legislative CommitteesNo
Legislative DistrictsNo
Strong-Mayor
Legislative CommitteesYes
Committees LabelCommittees
Sources (4)
Counties Municipalities
Urlhttps://services.arcgis.com/p5v98VHDX9Atv3l7/arcgis/rest/services/VA_Jurisdictions/FeatureServer/0
ProviderVGIN (Virginia Geographic Information Network) / VDOT
TypeArcGIS REST FeatureServer
Noteverified live — JURISTYPE cleanly distinguishes independent cities from towns nested in a county, matching this file's own city/town split. Towns have no explicit parent-county field; derive from STCOFIPS or a spatial join to the county polygons. The VGIN Clearinghouse's own host (gismaps.vdem.virginia.gov) failed DNS resolution when checked — use this ArcGIS Online-hosted mirror instead.
Field mapping (4)
NAME (Or NAMELSAD)name
JURISTYPEconcept_id — "CO"=county (95), "CI"=independent city (38), "TO"=town (191)
STCOFIPSattributes.county_fips
GEOIDjurisdiction_identifiers (scheme "census_geoid")
School Districts
Statusno live VDOE-native statewide API found
Fallbackhttps://nces.ed.gov/opengis/rest/services/School_District_Boundaries/EDGE_SCHOOLDISTRICT_TL21_SY2021/MapServer (federal NCES EDGE layer, filter STATEFP='51') — not independently count-verified this session, flagged as needing confirmation rather than asserted as fact
Notedata.virginia.gov's "School Regions" dataset only covers Fairfax County, not statewide.
Educational Region
Statusnone found — VA has no BOCES/ESD-equivalent regional education service agency
Population
Statusnot yet ingested
Recommended SourceUS Census Bureau Population Estimates Program (PEP) — https://api.census.gov/data/{year}/pep/population — joins on the county/independent-city FIPS already captured by the counties_municipalities source above.