Glen Lyn
Glen Lyn is an unincorporated community in Giles County, Virginia, United States, at the confluence of the East and New rivers. Glen Lyn was incorporated as a town in 1926, and remained so until 2024 after its residents voted to dissolve the town's charter and become an unincorporated community.- Type: Village with 165 residents
- Description: human settlement in Giles County, Virginia, United States of America
- Also known as: “Glen Lyn, VA”, “Glen Lyn, Virginia”, “Glenlyn”, “Hells Gate”, “Montreal”, and “Parkinson Shumates Ferry”
- Postal code: 24093
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Rich Creek and Midway.
Rich Creek
Village
Midway
Hamlet
Midway is an unincorporated community in Giles County, Virginia, United States. It lies at an elevation of 1,719 feet. Midway is situated 3½ miles northeast of Glen Lyn.
Chestnut Knob
Hamlet
Chestnut Knob is an unincorporated community in Mercer County, West Virginia, United States. Chestnut Knob is 6 miles east-southeast of Athens. Chestnut Knob is situated 3½ miles northwest of Glen Lyn.
Glen Lyn
- Categories: town in the United States and locality
- Location: Giles, Virginia, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.36818° or 37° 22′ 5″ north
Longitude
-80.86425° or 80° 51′ 51″ west
Population
165
Elevation
1,673 feet (510 metres)
Open location code
869X949P+78
OpenStreetMap ID
OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
GeoNames ID
Wikidata ID
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Volapük—“Glen Lyn” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “غلين لاين”
- Basque: “Glen Lyn”
- Catalan: “Glen Lyn”
- Cebuano: “Glen Lyn”
- Chechen: “Глен-Лин”
- Chinese: “Glen Lyn”
- Dutch: “Glen Lyn”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جلين لاين”
- French: “Glen Lyn”
- German: “Glen Lyn”
- Gilaki: “گلن لین (ويرجينيا)”
- Gilaki: “گلن لین”
- Haitian: “Glen Lyn, Vijini”
- Haitian: “Glen Lyn”
- Hungarian: “Glen Lyn”
- Italian: “Glen Lyn”
- Ladin: “Glen Lyn”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Glen Lyn”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Glen Lyn”
- Norwegian: “Glen Lyn”
- Polish: “Glen Lyn”
- Portuguese: “Glen Lyn”
- Serbian: “Glen Lyn”
- Serbian: “Глен Лyн”
- Serbian: “Глен Лин”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Glen Lyn, Virginia”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Glen Lyn”
- Spanish: “Glen Lyn”
- Tatar: “Глен-Лин”
- Ukrainian: “Глен-Лін”
- Urdu: “گلین لن، ورجینیا”
- Uzbek: “Glen Lyn”
- Uzbek: “Глен Лйн”
- Volapük: “Glen Lyn”
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