Pound
Pound is a town in Wise County, Virginia, United States. The population was recorded as 1,037 in the 2010 United States census.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,080 residents
- Description: town in Virginia
- Also known as: “Pound, VA” and “Pound, Virginia”
- Postal code: 24279
Places of Interest
Highlights include North Fork of Pound Lake.
North Fork of Pound Lake
Lake
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
North Fork Pound Reservoir is a reservoir in Wise County, Virginia. It was built in 1966 as authorised by the Flood Control Act of 1960 and managed by the United States Army Corps of Engineers. North Fork of Pound Lake is situated 2½ miles west of Pound.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Payne Gap and Gaskill.
Payne Gap
Hamlet
Payne Gap is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Letcher County, Kentucky, United States. Its population was 329 as of the 2010 census. U.S. Route 119 passes through the community. Payne Gap is situated 4 miles northwest of Pound.
Gaskill
Hamlet
Gaskill is an unincorporated community located in Letcher County, Kentucky, United States. Gaskill is situated 4½ miles north of Pound.
Gilley
Hamlet
Gilley is an unincorporated community in Wise County, Virginia, United States. Gilley is situated 4½ miles southwest of Pound.
Pound
- Categories: town of Virginia and locality
- Location: Wise, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.12372° or 37° 7′ 25″ northLongitude
-82.60127° or 82° 36′ 5″ westPopulation
1,080Elevation
1,565 feet (477 metres)United Nations Location Code
US PN4Open location code
869V49FX+FFOpenStreetMap ID
node 154077129OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Pound” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “بوند”
- Basque: “Pound”
- Catalan: “Pound”
- Cebuano: “Pound”
- Chechen: “Паунд”
- Chinese: “Pound”
- Chinese: “龐德”
- Dutch: “Pound”
- French: “Pound”
- German: “Pound”
- Gilaki: “پؤند (ويرجينيا)”
- Gilaki: “پؤند”
- Haitian: “Pound, Vijini”
- Haitian: “Pound”
- Hungarian: “Pound”
- Italian: “Pound”
- Ladin: “Pound”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Pound”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Pound (Virginia)”
- Norwegian: “Pound”
- Polish: “Pound”
- Portuguese: “Pound”
- Serbian: “Паунд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pound, Virginia”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Pound”
- Spanish: “Pound”
- Tatar: “Паунд”
- Ukrainian: “Паунд”
- Uzbek: “Pound”
- Uzbek: “Поунд”
- Volapük: “Pound”
- Welsh: “Pound, Virginia”
- Welsh: “Pound”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Pound Volunteer Fire Department and Pound Post Office.
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