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Blacksburg is an incorporated town in Montgomery County in southwestern Virginia, sitting on a plateau between the Blue Ridge and Allegheny mountains.

Blacksburg was founded in 1798 and named for Samuel Black, whose son William laid out the original town in a grid of 16 blocks in 1797 — a pattern still reflected in the town's 16-squares logo.

Blacksburg was incorporated on March 22, 1871, and just a year later, in 1872, the Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College opened — the school that became Virginia Tech.

Virginia Tech (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University), a land-grant university, dominates Blacksburg economically and demographically, and roughly 25,000 of its students live in or around the town.

Blacksburg had a population of 44,826 at the 2020 census, up from 42,620 in 2010, making it the largest town in Montgomery County.

Blacksburg has about 13,840 households according to Census Bureau QuickFacts for 2020-2024, a low household count for its population because so many residents are students living in group quarters or shared housing.

Blacksburg, Christiansburg and Radford anchor the Blacksburg-Christiansburg metropolitan area, which had an estimated population of 181,863 and is one of the faster-growing metro areas in Virginia.

The train that reached Blacksburg in 1904 ran on a railroad nicknamed the 'Huckleberry,' and its old route is now the Huckleberry Trail, a paved rail-trail linking Blacksburg with Christiansburg.

Downtown Blacksburg's Lyric Theatre on College Avenue, whose predecessor was built in 1909, is a restored historic cinema and live performance venue.

Virginia Tech's campus landmarks in Blacksburg include the Drillfield, the Moss Arts Center and the Hahn Horticulture Garden, and game days center on the Hokies' Lane Stadium.