Boissevain
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.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.
- Type: Village with 457 residents
- Description: census-designated place in Tazewell County, Virginia
- Also known as: “Boissevain, VA” and “Boissevain, Virginia”
- Postal code: 24606
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 Big Vein and Jenkinjones.
Big Vein
Hamlet
Big Vein is an unincorporated community in Tazewell County, Virginia, United States. Big Vein is situated 1½ miles northeast of Boissevain.
Jenkinjones
Hamlet
Photo: Coal town guy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Jenkinjones is an unincorporated community and coal town in McDowell County, West Virginia, United States. It lies on the western flanks of Stone Ridge near the border with Tazewell County, Virginia. Jenkinjones is situated 2½ miles west of Boissevain.
Pocahontas
Village
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. Pocahontas is situated 2½ miles northeast of Boissevain.
Boissevain
Latitude
37.28178° or 37° 16′ 54″ northLongitude
-81.38038° or 81° 22′ 49″ westPopulation
457Elevation
2,454 feet (748 metres)Open location code
869W7JJ9+PROpenStreetMap ID
node 154027713OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
4748259Wikidata ID
Q4938497
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In Other Languages
From French to Spanish—“Boissevain” goes by many names.
- French: “Boissevain”
- Gilaki: “بواسیوین (ويرجينيا)”
- Gilaki: “بواسیوین”
- Irish: “Boissevain”
- Ladin: “Boissevain”
- Persian: “بویزوین”
- Spanish: “Boissevain”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Boissevain”. Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.