Bernietown

Bernietown is a hamlet in Tazewell, Virginia. Bernietown is situated nearby to the hamlet Big Vein, as well as near the village Boissevain.

Type: Hamlet
Description: hamlet in Virginia, United States
Also known as: “Bernietown, VA”, “Bernietown, Virginia”, and “Bumley Town”

Places of Interest

Highlights include Pocahontas State Correctional Center.

Pocahontas State Correctional Center

Prison

The Pocahontas State Correctional Center is a medium-security prison located on 35 acres in Tazewell County, just west of the town of Pocahontas, Virginia. The $68.6 million facility was completed in the summer of 2007, and opened in September, 2007.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Boissevain and Pocahontas.

Boissevain

Village

Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.

Boissevain is an unincorporated community, census-designated place, and former coal town in Tazewell County, Virginia, United States. It was defined as a census-designated place at the 1950 United States census under the spelling Boissevaine, when it had a population of 1,197.

Pocahontas

Village

Photo: Coal town guy, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Pocahontas is a town in Tazewell County, Virginia, United States. It was named for Chief Powhatan's daughter, Pocahontas, who lived in the 17th-century Jamestown Settlement.

Wolfe

Hamlet

Wolfe is an unincorporated community in Mercer County, West Virginia, United States. Wolfe is located along West Virginia Route 102 at the Virginia border and is 0.5 miles east-northeast of Pocahontas, Virginia. Wolfe is situated 2 miles northeast of Bernietown.

Bernietown

Categories: human settlement and locality
Location: Tazewell, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

37.29428° or 37° 17′ 39″ north

Longitude

-81.36121° or 81° 21′ 40″ west

Elevation

2,411 feet (735 metres)

Open location code

869W7JVQ+PG

OpenStreetMap ID

node 153952714

OpenStreetMap feature

place=hamlet

GeoNames ID

4746767

Wikidata ID

Q122540674

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Pocahontas Mine and Boissevain Post Office.

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