Welcome to Louisa County’s website. We hope it provides answers to the questions that brought you here, and that it conveys a deserving picture of an ideal location for business or pleasure.

Ideally located in the rolling Central Piedmont region near the heart of Virginia in the prosperous Richmond, Charlottesville, Fredericksburg Eastern U.S.triangle, Louisa County is within 500 miles of one half of the nation’s population. The 514 square miles are predominantly farm and forest lands, mixed with business, industrial, and residential properties.

The county seat, the Town of Louisa, is located just 50 miles from the state capital in Richmond, 95 miles from the nation’s capital in Washington, D.C., 35 miles from Charlottesville, home of Thomas Jefferson’s University, and 45 miles from Fredericksburg. The town of Mineral is the county’s other incorporated town. The county population numbers about 33,000.

Louisa County has a moderate climate with an average temperature of 56 degrees Fahrenheit. January highs average 47 degrees with lows of 26 degrees and July averages are 88 degrees high and 65 degrees low. The annual precipitation averages 41.6 inches with a 14 inch average snowfall.

Retail and service needs of county residents are met through three commercial areas in the towns of Louisa and Mineral and numerous rural shops and stores. In addition, the many shopping malls and centers in the Fredericksburg- Richmond- Charlottesville metropolitan areas are easily accessed by Louisa residents.