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Radford is an independent city in Virginia's New River Valley, nicknamed 'The New River City,' sitting at a double bend in the New River between the Blue Ridge and Allegheny mountains.

The 2020 census counted 16,070 people in Radford, in about 5,789 households, and its median age of just 23.5 years is one of the youngest in Virginia because of its university population.

Radford grew up around a New River crossing of the Wilderness Road, where the settlement was earlier known as Lovely Mount, Central City, English Ferry and Ingle's Ferry.

The town boomed after the Virginia and Tennessee Railroad arrived in 1854; it took the name Radford, for Dr. John B. Radford, in 1891, and the east and west settlements merged to attain city status in 1892.

Radford is home to Radford University, a public university founded in 1910 as the State Normal and Industrial School for Women at Radford and now one of Virginia's eight doctoral-degree-granting public universities, on a 177-acre campus.

Radford University's founding president was Dr. John Preston McConnell, and the school became Radford College in 1924 before taking the university name in 1979.

Radford City Schools runs just four schools: McHarg Elementary, Belle Heth Elementary, Dalton Intermediate and Radford High School, home of the Bobcats.

Bisset Park, Radford's largest park at 57 acres on the New River in the center of town, is one of four city parks alongside Wildwood, Riverview and Sunset parks.

Despite its name, the Radford Arsenal, historically a major employer of city residents, is actually located in neighboring Pulaski and Montgomery counties.

Radford's Glencoe Museum, housed in a Victorian mansion, preserves the history of the city and the New River Valley, and Dr. Radford's own home, Arnheim, was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.