Roanoke City Jail

Roanoke City Jail is a prison in Roanoke, Southwest Virginia, Virginia which is located on Campbell Avenue Southwest. Roanoke City Jail is situated nearby to the park Roanoke Warehouse Historic District, as well as near the railway station Roanoke station.

Opening hours: Monday—Friday 8:00 AM—11:00 AM and 12:30 PM—4:30 PM
Type: Prison
Address: 324 Campbell Avenue Southwest, Roanoke, VA 24016

Places of Interest Nearby

Highlights include Roanoke Warehouse Historic District and Roanoke station.

Roanoke Warehouse Historic District

Park

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Roanoke Warehouse Historic District, also known as 'Wholesale Row," is a national historic district located at Roanoke, Virginia. It encompasses five contributing buildings constructed between 1889 and 1902.

Roanoke station

Railway station

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Roanoke station is a train station in Roanoke, Virginia, the current southern terminus of Amtrak's Northeast Regional line. Built in 2017, it follows several other Roanoke passenger stations that operated from the 1850s to 1979. Roanoke station is situated 1,700 feet northeast of Roanoke City Jail.

Gainsboro Branch Library

Library

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The Gainsboro Branch Library is a historic library building located in the Gainsboro neighborhood of Roanoke, Virginia, United States. It was built in 1941–1942 and is a one-story, seven-bay brick building built with an L-plan and gabled roof, and designed in the Tudor Revival style. Gainsboro Branch Library is situated 2,700 feet northeast of Roanoke City Jail.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wasena and Mountain View.

Wasena

Quarter

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Wasena is a Roanoke, Virginia neighborhood located in south, central Roanoke bisected by U.S. Route 221, immediately to the south of the Roanoke River.

Mountain View

Quarter

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Mountain View is a Roanoke, Virginia neighborhood located in central Roanoke north of the Roanoke River. It borders the neighborhoods of Norwich on the west, West End on the east, Hurt Park on the north and Raleigh Court and Wasena on the south.

West End

Suburb

West End is a Roanoke, Virginia neighborhood located in central Roanoke south of the Norfolk Southern railyard. It borders the neighborhoods of Hurt Park and Mountain View on the west, Downtown on the east, Gilmer on the north across the Norfolk Southern railyard and Old Southwest on the south.

Roanoke City Jail

Categories: building and government building
Location: Roanoke, Southwest Virginia, Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

37.27119° or 37° 16′ 16″ north

Longitude

-79.94663° or 79° 56′ 48″ west

Elevation

948 feet (289 metres)

Levels

Operator

Roanoke City Sheriff

Open location code

879273C3+F8

OpenStreetMap ID

way 549558911

OpenStreetMap feature

amenity=prison

OpenStreetMap feature

building=yes

GeoNames ID

11384543

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