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The 3-year average unemployment rate for the Appalachian region in 2006-2008 was 5.2%. The region's per capita market income in 2007 was $24,360. The region's poverty rate was 13.6%. [1] Alabama's Appalachian counties led all states' Appalachian counties in unemployment (3.8%) and per capita market income ($27,723).
The Garden Mountain Cluster is a region in the Jefferson National Forest recognized by The Wilderness Society for its diversity of habitats extending along the east, south and west of Burke's Garden. The cluster, part of the Appalachian Mountains in southwest Virginia, connects wildlands in the high country of Garden Mountain and adjacent ...
The area is located in the Appalachian Mountains of Southwestern Virginia and Eastern Tennessee, about 6 miles west of Laurel Bloomery, Tennessee and 2 miles southwest of Damascus, Virginia. It is bounded by Tennessee Highway 133 on the east. [3] [4] The Appalachian Trail passes through the area for 4.0 miles.
Additionally expanded counties which may be included in Appalachia, reflecting the Little Cities of Black Diamonds which are locally identified as Appalachian. Pittsburg's nickname, the Paris of Appalachia, in addition to sources which I will add this file, means Pittsburgh could be considered as part of Appalachia in certain scenarios.
A Natural History of the Central Appalachians, 2013, West Virginia University Press, West Virginia, ISBN 978-1933202-68-6. Davis, Donald Edward, Where There Are Mountains, An Environmental History of the Southern Appalachians, 2000, University of Georgia Press, Athens, Georgia. ISBN 0-8203-2125-7.
The blue dotted line encloses the counties included in the ARC definition.. The first major attempt to map Appalachia as a distinctive cultural region came in the 1890s with the efforts of Berea College president William Goodell Frost, whose "Appalachian America" included 194 counties in 8 states.
Southwest Virginia, often abbreviated as SWVA, is a mountainous region of Virginia in the westernmost part of the commonwealth.Located within the broader region of western Virginia, Southwest Virginia has been defined alternatively as all Virginia counties on the Appalachian Plateau, all Virginia counties west of the Eastern Continental Divide, or at its greatest expanse, as far east as ...
Boundary of North Creek wildland as identified by the Wilderness Society. [1]The area, located in the Appalachian Mountains of Southwestern Virginia about 7 miles northeast of Buchanan, Virginia, is between the Blue Ridge Parkway on the east, Middle Creek Road (Rt. 3101) on the west and Parkers Gap Road (Va 612) on the north.