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Gazetteer
Dinwiddie -- U.S. County in Virginia
Population (2000): 24533
Housing Units (2000): 9707
Land area (2000): 503.674384 sq. miles (1304.510610 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 3.306870 sq. miles (8.564754 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 506.981254 sq. miles (1313.075364 sq. km)
Located within: Virginia (VA), FIPS 51
Location: 37.097686 N, 77.612744 W
Headwords:
Dinwiddie
Dinwiddie, VA
Dinwiddie County
Dinwiddie County, VA
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Dinwiddie

Dinwiddie can refer to:

  • Ettleton, a village in the Scottish Borders
  • Dinwiddie County, Virginia, a county in Virginia, United States
    • Dinwiddie, Virginia, the county seat of Dinwiddie County
    • Battle of Dinwiddie Court House, a minor engagement in the American Civil War
  • Dinwiddie, Indiana

People with the last name Dinwiddie include:

  • Marcus Dinwiddie, an American sport shooter
  • Robert Dinwiddie (1693-1770), British lieutenant governor of colonial Virginia
  • Robert Dinwiddie (golfer), an English professional golfer
  • Ryan Dinwiddie, a professional Canadian football quarterback
  • Traci Dinwiddie, an American film and television actress

Usage examples of "dinwiddie".

He looked enough like Dinwiddie to have been his first cousin, and shared his diffident manner.

I am not sure if this is because he knows how I feel about his leaking information to his brother-in-law, Rep­resentative Dinwiddie, or if there is some other reason.

In response, Governor Dinwiddie ordered the construction of a fort at the strategically critical "forks of Ohio," the junction of the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers, the site of present-day Pittsburgh.

George Washington complained to Governor Dinwiddie: "the Bleu-Ridge is now our Frontier .