Rich Creek
Rich Creek is a town in Giles County, Virginia, United States. The population was 774 as per the 2010 census, up from 665 as per the 2000 census. It is part of the Blacksburg-Christiansburg metropolitan area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 748 residents
- Description: town in Giles County, Virginia, United States
- Also known as: “Rich Creek, VA” and “Rich Creek, Virginia”
- Postal code: 24147
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Midway and Peterstown.
Midway
Hamlet
Midway is an unincorporated community in Giles County, Virginia, United States. It lies at an elevation of 1,719 feet.
Peterstown
Village
Photo: Idawriter, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Peterstown is a town in Monroe County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 456 at the 2020 census. The town was named after Christian Peters, a pioneer settler. Peterstown is situated 1½ miles northeast of Rich Creek.
Glen Lyn
Village
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.
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. Glen Lyn is situated 2½ miles southwest of Rich Creek.
Rich Creek
- Categories: town in the United States and locality
- Location: Giles, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.38243° or 37° 22′ 57″ northLongitude
-80.82246° or 80° 49′ 21″ westPopulation
748Elevation
1,535 feet (468 metres)United Nations Location Code
US RHKOpen location code
869X95JH+X2OpenStreetMap ID
node 154060636OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Rich Creek” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ريتش كريك”
- Basque: “Rich Creek”
- Catalan: “Rich Creek”
- Cebuano: “Rich Creek”
- Chechen: “Рич-Крик”
- Chinese: “Rich Creek”
- Dutch: “Rich Creek”
- French: “Rich Creek”
- German: “Rich Creek”
- Gilaki: “ریچ کريک (ويرجينيا)”
- Gilaki: “ریچ کريک”
- Haitian: “Rich Creek, Vijini”
- Haitian: “Rich Creek”
- Hungarian: “Rich Creek”
- Italian: “Rich Creek”
- Ladin: “Rich Creek”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Rich Creek”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rich Creek”
- Norwegian: “Rich Creek”
- Polish: “Rich Creek”
- Portuguese: “Rich Creek”
- Serbian: “Рич Крик”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Rich Creek, Virginia”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Rich Creek”
- Spanish: “Rich Creek”
- Tatar: “Рич-Крик”
- Ukrainian: “Рич-Крік”
- Uzbek: “Rich Creek”
- Uzbek: “Рич Cреек”
- Volapük: “Rich Creek”
- Welsh: “Rich Creek, Virginia”
- Welsh: “Rich Creek”
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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 “Rich Creek”. Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.