{"id":1115,"date":"2025-02-06T13:10:59","date_gmt":"2025-02-06T18:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apps.vdh.virginia.gov\/omhhe\/hoi\/?page_id=1115"},"modified":"2025-02-26T15:48:26","modified_gmt":"2025-02-26T20:48:26","slug":"nelson-county","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/apps.vdh.virginia.gov\/omhhe\/hoi\/nelson-county","title":{"rendered":"Nelson County"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nelson County, Virginia is located in the <strong><span class=\"color\">Blue Ridge Health District<\/span><\/strong>. It has <strong><span class=\"color\">470.7<\/span><\/strong> square miles of land area and is the <strong><span class=\"color\">32nd<\/span><\/strong>\u00a0largest county in Virginia by total area. It is bordered by Buckingham, Amherst, Appomattox, Rockbridge, and Augusta Counties. There are <strong><span class=\"color\">5<\/span><\/strong> census tracts in the county. The county FIPS number is <strong><span class=\"color\">51125<\/span><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: right;\"><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/apps.vdh.virginia.gov\/omhhe\/hoi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Nelson.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">View County Report<\/a> \u00a0<a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/apps.vdh.virginia.gov\/omhhe\/hoi\/county-reports\">Return to All County Reports<\/a><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1731\" src=\"https:\/\/apps.vdh.virginia.gov\/omhhe\/hoi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Nelson.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"720\" height=\"960\" srcset=\"https:\/\/apps.vdh.virginia.gov\/omhhe\/hoi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Nelson.jpg 720w, https:\/\/apps.vdh.virginia.gov\/omhhe\/hoi\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/Nelson-225x300.jpg 225w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 720px) 100vw, 720px\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nelson County, Virginia is located in the Blue Ridge Health District. It has 470.7 square miles of land area and is the 32nd\u00a0largest county in Virginia by total area. It is bordered by Buckingham, Amherst, Appomattox, Rockbridge, and Augusta Counties. There are 5 census tracts in the county. The county FIPS number is 51125. View &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/apps.vdh.virginia.gov\/omhhe\/hoi\/nelson-county\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Nelson County<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page-templates\/maisha-blocks.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1115","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.vdh.virginia.gov\/omhhe\/hoi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.vdh.virginia.gov\/omhhe\/hoi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.vdh.virginia.gov\/omhhe\/hoi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.vdh.virginia.gov\/omhhe\/hoi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/apps.vdh.virginia.gov\/omhhe\/hoi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/apps.vdh.virginia.gov\/omhhe\/hoi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1115\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1860,"href":"https:\/\/apps.vdh.virginia.gov\/omhhe\/hoi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1115\/revisions\/1860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/apps.vdh.virginia.gov\/omhhe\/hoi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}