Surry (formerly Cross Roads, McIntosh's Cross Roads, McIntoshs Cross Roads, Scuffletown, Smithville, Surry Court House, and The Crossroads) is an

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Surry County, Virginia Surry County is a county in the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,561. In 1652, Surry County was formed from the portion of James City County south of the James River. For more than 350 years it has depende ...

, United States. The population was 244 at the 2010 census. It is the

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of Surry County. Its name is derived from the historic county of Surrey in England.

Geography

According to the

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, the town has a total area of 0.8 square miles (2.1 km²), all of it land.

Demographics

As of the

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of 2000, there were 262 people, 109 households, and 80 families living in the town. The

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was 323.7 people per square mile (124.9/km²). There were 119 housing units at an average density of 147.0 per square mile (56.7/km²). The racial makeup of the town was 74.05%

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