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Preferred Citation

"Northern Virginia Region Present and Future Population Densities" map, C0449, Special Collections Research Center, George Mason University Libraries

Acquisition Information

Donor is unknown.

Processing Information

Processing completed by Meghan Glasbrenner in May 2025. Finding aid completed by Meghan Glasbrenner in June 2025.

Historical Information

The Northern Virginia Regional Planning Commission (NVRPC) began as a political subdivision of the Commonwealth of Virginia on December 10, 1947. Created under the Virginia Regional Planning Act of 1944, it was composed of both elected officials and citizen appointees of the member local governments. The name was later updated to reflect the addition of Economic Development, changing to the Northern Virginia Regional Planning and Economic Development Commission (NVRP&EDC).

In 1969 the commission was reorganized following the 1968 Virginia Area Development Act and renamed as the Northern Virginia Planning District Commission (NVPDC), now representing 12 counties. The number of NVPDC's member governments grew from 12 to 14, and in 2000 the Commission adopted its current name of the Northern Virginia Regional Commission (NVRC). In January 2005, NVRC amended its Charter, restricting members only to elected officials.

Scope and Content

A single-sided map created by the Northern Virginia Regional Planning Commission titled "Northern Virginia Region Present and Future Population Densities." The map uses red and blue dots to illustrate population density in 1969, with projections of density in the 1980s and before the year 2000, in Prince William, Fairfax, and Loudoun counties. The map includes two keys, one for Population Distribution in the three indicated time periods and one Legend to use in reading the dot size as a representative of population numbers.

Arrangement

This is a single item collection.

Related Material

The Special Collections Research Center holds other materials related to Northern Virginia regional planning including the Northern Virginia planning collection .

Subjects and Indexing Terms

• Fairfax County (Va.)
• Loudoun County (Va.)
• Maps
• Northern Virginia
• Population density
• Prince William County (Va.)
• Regional planning -- Virginia
• Virginia, Northern