Buena Vista
Buena Vista is an independent city located in the Blue Ridge Mountains region of Virginia in the United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,641.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Carol M. Highsmith, Public domain.
- Type: Town with 6,460 residents
- Description: independent city in Virginia, United States
- Also known as: “Buena Vista, VA”, “Buena Vista, Virginia”, “Buenavista”, and “Hart’s Bottom”
- Postal code: 24416
Places of Interest
Highlights include Buena Vista Public Library and Glen Maury.
Glen Maury
Building
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.
Glen Maury, also known as the Paxton Place and Elisha Paxton's house, is a historic home located in Rockbridge County, Virginia, near the independent city of Buena Vista.
Buena Vista Colored School
School building
Photo: Pubdog, Public domain.
Buena Vista Colored School is a historic school building for African American children located at Buena Vista, Virginia. It was built in 1914, and expanded in 1926.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Mechanicsville and Buffalo Forge.
Mechanicsville
Locality
Mechanicsville is an unincorporated community in Rockbridge County, Virginia, United States. Mechanicsville is 3 miles southwest of Buena Vista. Mechanicsville is situated 3 miles southwest of Buena Vista.
Buffalo Forge
Hamlet
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.
Buffalo Forge, also known as the Forge Complex, is a historic iron forge complex and national historic district located near Glasgow, Rockbridge County, Virginia. Buffalo Forge is situated 5 miles southwest of Buena Vista.
Lexington
Town
Photo: Zeete, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Lexington is an independent city in the Commonwealth of Virginia, United States. At the 2020 census, the population was 7,320. It is the county seat of Rockbridge County, although the two are separate jurisdictions, and is combined with it for statistical purposes by the Bureau of Economic Analysis. Lexington is situated 6 miles northwest of Buena Vista.
Buena Vista
- Categories: independent city in the United States and locality
- Location: Buena Vista, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.7343° or 37° 44′ 4″ northLongitude
-79.35393° or 79° 21′ 14″ westPopulation
6,460Elevation
837 feet (255 metres)United Nations Location Code
US BVSOpen location code
8792PJMW+PCOpenStreetMap ID
node 157644893OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Waray—“Buena Vista” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بوينا فيستا”
- Basque: “Buena Vista konderria”
- Bavarian: “Buena Vista City”
- Bavarian: “Buena Vista, Virginia”
- Bishnupriya: “বুয়েনা ভিস্তা সিটি, ভার্জিনিয়া”
- Bishnupriya: “বুয়েনা ভিস্তা সিটি”
- Cebuano: “Buena Vista (kapital sa kondado sa Estados Unidos, Virginia)”
- Cebuano: “Buena Vista”
- Chechen: “Бьюна-Виста”
- Chinese: “布尤納維斯塔”
- Chinese: “比尤納維斯塔”
- Chinese: “比尤纳维斯塔”
- Dutch: “Buena Vista”
- Esperanto: “Buena Vista (Virginio)”
- Esperanto: “Buena Vista”
- Finnish: “Buena Vista”
- French: “Buena Vista”
- French: “Municipalité de Buena Vista”
- German: “Buena Vista”
- Gilaki: “بۊئنا ويستا (ويرجينيا)”
- Gilaki: “بۊئنا ويستا”
- Haitian: “Buena Vista, Vijini”
- Haitian: “Buena Vista”
- Hungarian: “Buena Vista”
- Indonesian: “Buena Vista, Virginia”
- Indonesian: “Buena Vista”
- Irish: “Buena Vista”
- Italian: “Buena Vista”
- Japanese: “ブエナビスタ”
- Ladin: “Buena Vista”
- Low German: “Buena Vista”
- Malagasy: “Buena Vista, Virginia”
- Malagasy: “Buena Vista”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Buena Vista”
- Norwegian: “Buena Vista”
- Persian: “بوئناویستا، ویرجینیا”
- Persian: “بوئناویستا”
- Polish: “Buena Vista”
- Portuguese: “Buena Vista”
- Russian: “Бьюна-Виста”
- Serbian: “Бјуна Виста”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Buena Vista, Virginia”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Buena Vista”
- Slovenian: “Buena Vista”
- South Azerbaijani: “بونا ویستا، ویرجینیا”
- Spanish: “Buena Vista”
- Swedish: “Buena Vista, Virginia”
- Swedish: “Buena Vista”
- Talysh: “Bjuna Vista”
- Tatar: “Бьюна-Виста”
- Turkish: “Buena Vista, Virginia”
- Turkish: “Buena Vista”
- Ukrainian: “Б’юна-Віста”
- Urdu: “بیونا وسٹا، ورجینیا”
- Urdu: “بیونا وسٹا”
- Uzbek: “Buena Vista”
- Vietnamese: “Buena Vista, Virginia”
- Vietnamese: “Buena Vista”
- Volapük: “Buena Vista”
- Waray (Philippines): “Buena Vista, Virginia”
- Waray (Philippines): “Buena Vista”
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