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Roanoke County has not lost population since the World War II years of the 1940s. Not even losing some of its territory to Roanoke in annexation in the 1970s and to Salem in a municipal secession in the 1960s managed to put Roanoke County into the population-loss category. It’s only lost population in two census counts since the end of the Civil War.
Montgomery County has an even longer record of sustained population growth. It hasn’t lost population since the 1900 census; that’s the only time it’s lost population since the Civil War…