Abingdon
Abingdon is a town in and the county seat of Washington County, Virginia, United States, 133 miles southwest of Roanoke. The population was 8,375 at the 2020 census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 8,380 residents
- Description: town and county seat of Washington County, Virginia, United States
- Also known as: “Abingdon, VA”, “Abingdon, Virginia”, “Black’s Fort”, “Blacks Fort”, and “Wolf Hills”
- Postal codes: 24210-24212
Places of Interest
Highlights include Barter Theatre and Martha Washington Inn.
Barter Theatre
Theater building
Photo: RebelAt, Public domain.
Barter Theatre, in Abingdon, Virginia, opened on June 10, 1933. It is the longest-running professional Equity theatre in the United States.
Martha Washington Inn
Hotel
Photo: RebelAt, Public domain.
The Martha Washington Inn is a historic hotel located in Abingdon, Virginia. Originally built in 1832 by General Francis Preston, hero of the War of 1812, for his family of nine children, over the course of the last 174 years, the building has served as an upscale women's college, a Civil War hospital and barracks, and as a residence for visiting actors of the Barter Theatre.
St. Thomas Episcopal Church
St. Thomas Episcopal Church is a historic parish of the Episcopal Church in Abingdon, Virginia, within the Diocese of Southwestern Virginia.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Hayter.
Hayter
Hamlet
Hayter is an unincorporated community in Washington County, in the U.S. state of Virginia. It has an elevation of 2,149 ft. Hayter is situated 3½ miles northeast of Abingdon.
Abingdon
- Categories: town of Virginia, county seat, and locality
- Location: Washington, Virginia, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.7104° or 36° 42′ 37″ northLongitude
-81.97525° or 81° 58′ 31″ westPopulation
8,380Elevation
2,064 feet (629 metres)IATA airport code
VJIUnited Nations Location Code
US VJIOpen location code
868WP26F+5WOpenStreetMap ID
node 8997373219OpenStreetMap feature
place=townGeoNames ID
4743815Wikidata ID
Q137919
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Abingdon” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أبينغدون”
- Belarusian: “Абінгдан”
- Catalan: “Abingdon”
- Cebuano: “Abingdon”
- Chechen: “Абингдон”
- Chinese: “Abingdon”
- Chinese: “阿宾登”
- Chinese: “阿賓登”
- Czech: “Abingdon”
- Dagbani: “Abingdon”
- Danish: “Abingdon”
- Dutch: “Abingdon”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ابينجدون)”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ابينجدون”
- French: “Abingdon”
- German: “Abingdon”
- Gilaki: “ابینگدون (ويرجينيا)”
- Gilaki: “ابینگدون”
- Haitian: “Abingdon, Vijini”
- Haitian: “Abingdon”
- Hebrew: “אבינגדון”
- Hungarian: “Abingdon”
- Irish: “Abingdon”
- Italian: “Abingdon”
- Japanese: “アビンドン”
- Korean: “애빙던”
- Ladin: “Abingdon”
- Lithuanian: “Abingdonas”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Abingdon”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Abingdon (Virginia)”
- Norwegian: “Abingdon”
- Occitan (post 1500): “Abingdon”
- Persian: “ابینگدام، ویرجینیا”
- Persian: “ابینگدام”
- Persian: “ابینگدان”
- Polish: “Abingdon”
- Portuguese: “Abingdon”
- Russian: “Абингдон”
- Serbian: “Абингдон”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Abingdon, Virginia”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Abingdon”
- Slovenian: “Abingdon”
- South Azerbaijani: “آبینقدون، ویرجینیا”
- Spanish: “Abingdon, Virginia”
- Spanish: “Abingdon”
- Swedish: “Abingdon, Virginia”
- Swedish: “Abingdon”
- Talysh: “Abingdon”
- Talysh: “Abinqdon”
- Tatar: “Абингдон”
- Ukrainian: “Абінгдон”
- Uzbek: “Abingdon”
- Volapük: “Abingdon”
- Welsh: “Abingdon, Virginia”
- Welsh: “Abingdon”
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