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The main campus of Virginia Tech is located in Blacksburg, Virginia; the central campus is roughly bordered by Prices Fork Road to the northwest, Plantation Road to the west, Main Street to the east, and U.S. Route 460 bypass to the south, although it also has several thousand acres beyond the central campus.
Blacksburg is an incorporated town in Montgomery County, Virginia, United States, with a population of 44,826 at the 2020 census.Blacksburg and the surrounding county is dominated economically and demographically by the presence of Virginia Tech.
Blacksburg, the larger of the towns, is home to Virginia Tech, while Radford, the only city in the group, is home to Radford University. Christiansburg , a town which lies between Blacksburg and Radford, is the Montgomery County county seat and home to a branch of the New River Community College as well as hundreds of stores and restaurants and ...
Its county seat is Christiansburg, [2] and Blacksburg is the largest town. Montgomery County is part of the Blacksburg-Christiansburg metropolitan area. It is dominated economically by the presence of Virginia Tech, Virginia's third largest public university, [3] which is the county's largest employer. [4]
Virginia Tech's Burruss Hall VT's 6th president, Paul Brandon Barringer Virginia Polytechnic Institute logo in the 1899 yearbook. In 1872, with federal funds provided by the Morrill Act of 1862, the Reconstruction-era Virginia General Assembly purchased the facilities of Preston and Olin Institute, a small Methodist school for boys in Southwest Virginia's rural Montgomery County.
Sandra D. Thompson Field (or simply Thompson Field) is a stadium located on the campus of Virginia Tech in Blacksburg, Virginia where it is home to the Hokies soccer and lacrosse teams. Built in 2003, the stadium seats 2,500 people and features a regulation size auxiliary field.
The Virginia Tech Corporate Research Center, known locally as the 'Corporate Research Center' or the 'CRC' or 'VTCRC', is a science park next to the Virginia Tech campus in Blacksburg, Virginia, comprising 33 completed buildings on 230 acres (0.93 km 2) of land. The CRC is located adjacent to the Virginia Tech Airport.
State Route 412 (SR 412) is a primary state highway in the U.S. state of Virginia. Known as Prices Fork Road, the state highway runs 1.35 miles (2.17 km) from U.S. Route 460 (US 460) east to US 460 Business within Blacksburg in northern Montgomery County. SR 412 connects US 460 with downtown Blacksburg and the northern end of the campus of ...