Blacksburg is an incorporated town located in Montgomery County, Virginia, United States, with a population of 42,620 at the 2010 census. Blacksburg, Christiansburg, and Radford are the three principal jurisdictions of the Blacksburg-Christiansburg-Radford Metropolitan Statistical Area which encompasses those jurisdictions and all of Montgomery, Pulaski, and Giles counties for statistical purposes. The MSA has an estimated population of 159,587 and is currently one of the faster growing MSAs in Virginia. Blacksburg is dominated economically and demographically by the presence of Virginia... Polytechnic Institute and State University , a Virginia land-grant university. Blacksburg is the largest town in Virginia by population. There are many larger municipalities, but they are incorporated as cities. In 2011, Businessweek named Blacksburg the "Best Place in the U.S. to Raise Kids." Hoping to find a gap in the Allegheny Mountains, whose topography and native inhabitants had previously blocked settlement, the government of Virginia organized several expeditions to find a geo-political passage to reach further west.
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| County: | Montgomery County |
| State: | Virginia |
| Country: | United States of America |
| Population: | 42,881 |
| Area: | 19.4 sq. mi. |
| Time zone: | North American Eastern Time Zone |
| Also known as: | Blacksburg, Virginia, Montgomery County / Blacksburg town |