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Stuart is an incorporated town in Patrick County, Virginia — the Virginia town in the Blue Ridge foothills, not Stuart, Florida — and it is the county seat and the county's only incorporated town.

Stuart has been the seat of Patrick County since the county was organized in 1791 from Henry County; the county itself is named for Patrick Henry, Virginia's first post-colonial governor.

The town was first incorporated as Taylorsville in 1792, named in honor of early settler George Taylor.

When the first train arrived in August 1884, Taylorsville was incorporated as a town and renamed Stuart in honor of Confederate Major General J.E.B. Stuart.

J.E.B. Stuart was born on February 6, 1833, at Laurel Hill Farm in Ararat, about 20 miles west of the town that now bears his name.

The Patrick County Courthouse, built in 1821–1822 at the center of town, anchors the Stuart Uptown Historic District, which was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2002.

The 2020 census counted 1,431 people in Stuart, making it the largest community in Patrick County, whose total population was 17,608.

Census Bureau survey estimates put Stuart at roughly 683 households, with small households averaging about 2.19 people.

Patrick County High School and Stuart Elementary School are both located within the town; the high school serves roughly 1,000 students in grades 8 through 12 from across the county.

Stuart's hospital was the first in the Commonwealth of Virginia to be designated a Critical Access Hospital.