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It is the county seat of Wise County. [5] It was originally incorporated as the town of Gladeville in 1874. The town's name was changed to Wise in 1924, after Henry A. Wise, the last Virginia governor before the American Civil War and the first governor to hail from the Eastern Shore of Virginia. [6]
Virginia's two highest security state prisons are located in Wise County: Red Onion State Prison, opened in 1998, and Wallens Ridge State Prison, opened in 1999. [3] In July 2012 Dominion Energy built Virginia City Hybrid Energy Center in Wise County, a hybrid power plant that burns 80% coal and up to 20% biomass. In 2014, the plant was fined ...
Magisterial districts are defined by the United States Census Bureau as a minor civil division that is a nonfunctioning subdivision used in conducting elections or recording land ownership, and are not governments. [1] These districts are unique to counties only and do not exist in Virginia's 38 independent cities.
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It is unique to Virginia in containing both Appalachian Plateau and Ridge and Valley topography, although it is largely a karstic landform of the Ridge and Valley Province. High Knob stretches across portions of southern Wise County, northern Scott County, and the northeastern tip of Lee County. It is a significant physical feature in Virginia ...
Geography of Wise County, Virginia ... Pages in category "Wise County, Virginia" ... United States District Court for the Western District of Virginia;
Osaka is a Census-designated place and coal town located in Wise County, Virginia, United States, served by a (now vanished) branch line of the Appalachia to Stonega railroad that ran along Mud Lick Creek to Roda, which was built in 1896 by Interstate Railroads. [2] [3]
Stonega is a Census-designated place and coal town located in Wise County, Virginia, United States. [2] It is part of the Big Stone Gap, Virginia micropolitan area.The community was founded in 1895 to provide housing and coking facilities for the Virginia Coal and Iron Company before being leased to the Stonega Coke and Coal Company in 1902. [3]