Wise
Wise is a town in Wise County, Virginia. The population was 2,970 at the 2020 census. It is the county seat of Wise County. It was originally incorporated as the town of Gladeville in 1874.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Town with 2,970 residents
- Description: town in Virginia, United States
- Also known as: “Big Glades”, “Gladesville Court House”, “Gladeville”, “Wise Court House”, “Wise, VA”, and “Wise, Virginia”
- Postal code: 24293
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wise County Courthouse and J J Kelly High School.
Wise County Courthouse
Courthouse
Photo: Jhb 10s, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The Wise County Courthouse is located at 206 East Main Street in downtown Wise, Virginia. As well as being home to Wise County's judicial system, it also serves as the chief administrative building for the county.
J J Kelly High School
School
J. J. Kelly High School was a former public high school in Wise, Virginia. The school was opened in 1953. It was part of the Wise County Public Schools system.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Glamorgan and Esserville.
Glamorgan
Locality
Glamorgan is an unincorporated community and coal town located in Wise County, Virginia, United States. Glamorgan is situated 2 miles northwest of Wise.
Esserville
Hamlet
Esserville is an unincorporated community and coal town located in Wise County, Virginia, United States. Esserville is situated 2½ miles southwest of Wise.
Needmore
Hamlet
Needmore is an unincorporated community and coal town located in Wise County, Virginia, United States. Needmore is situated 3½ miles west of Wise.
Wise
- Categories: town in the United States and locality
- Location: Wise, Virginia, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
36.97594° or 36° 58′ 33″ northLongitude
-82.57571° or 82° 34′ 33″ westPopulation
2,970Elevation
2,451 feet (747 metres)IATA airport code
LNPOpen location code
868VXCGF+9POpenStreetMap ID
node 153859739OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Wise” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “وايز”
- Basque: “Wise”
- Belarusian: “Уайз”
- Catalan: “Wise”
- Cebuano: “Wise”
- Chechen: “Вайз”
- Chinese: “Wise”
- Chinese: “懷斯鎮”
- Danish: “Wise”
- Dutch: “Wise”
- French: “Wise”
- German: “Wise”
- Gilaki: “وایز (ويرجينيا)”
- Gilaki: “وایز”
- Haitian: “Wise, Vijini”
- Haitian: “Wise”
- Hebrew: “וייס”
- Hungarian: “Wise”
- Irish: “Wise”
- Italian: “Wise”
- Japanese: “ワイズ”
- Ladin: “Wise”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Wise”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Wise”
- Norwegian: “Wise”
- Polish: “Wise”
- Portuguese: “Wise”
- Russian: “Уайз”
- Serbian: “Вајз”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wise, Virginia”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Wise”
- Slovenian: “Wise”
- South Azerbaijani: “ویس، ویرجینیا”
- Spanish: “Wise (Virginia)”
- Spanish: “Wise”
- Swedish: “Wise, Virginia”
- Swedish: “Wise”
- Tatar: “Вайз”
- Ukrainian: “Вайз”
- Uzbek: “Wise”
- Uzbek: “Wисе”
- Volapük: “Wise”
- Welsh: “Wise, Virginia”
- Welsh: “Wise”
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