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Appalachia, Virginia

Appalachia, Virginia
Administration
Full nameTown of Appalachia, Virginia
Official nameTown of Appalachia, Virginia
Settlement typeTown
CountryUnited States
StateVirginia
CountyWise
Government
MayorJessie "Jay" Swiney, III
Vice MayorJohn Brooks
Geography
Total Area2.3 sq mi (6 km2)
Land Area2.3 sq mi (6 km2)
Water Area0 sq mi (0.0 km2)
Elevation1647 ft (502 m)
Demography
Total Population1839 (2000)
Density (pop.)307.8/km2 (797.2/sq mi)
Other information
Time zoneEST (UTC-5)
- Summer (DST)EDT (UTC-4)
ZIP code24216
Area code276
FIPS code51-02040 
GNIS feature ID1481331 

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Appalachia is a town in Wise County, Virginia, United States. The population was 1,839 at the 2000 census.

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Many blue collar Democrats in Appalachia, and particularly West Virginia, are not ready for a black President. Here are a bunch of Hillary Clinton supporters voicing reasons why they would never vote for Senator Obama. It's a sad commentary of the education level of these people and racism in general. Update: 10-5-2008: Let me just say that I don't like the comments lumping all West Virginians into the same category. It isn't fair. I know that this video makes a lot of people angry, and it should, but let's try not to do the same things these people are doing and group a certain sections of the population into a category based on the deeds, actions or ignorance of a small group of people. I know a lot of people in West Virginia and when I was campaigning there for Senator Obama I met a LOT of good people. People that took me in their homes, fed me lunch and dinner and only want what most Americans want. A chance to make a decent living, support their families and to give their children a chance to do the same. {end update}
3.95 min. | 3.47 user rating		 Pine Mountain is one of the few "ridge and valley" mountains in Southern Appalachia that overlaps with the central Appalachian coalfield of the Cumberland Plateau. Its folded layers tower above a dozen coalfield counties in Virginia, Kentucky, and Tennessee. Communities that are 3 centuries old are innovators and survivors in this rugged landscape. Their amazing music, outlook on life, and sense of place are rare in this world. This video chronicles two of the hardships these wonderful people faced in the last 170 years: The American Civil War and Mountaintop Removal Coal Mining.
9.67 min. | 5.0 user rating		 This is a short film about a trip my RCAH 330 (Michigan State) class took to West Virginia in the fall.
9.25 min. | 5.0 user rating		 A brief news segment telling about Appalachia's Ed "Stonega Stallion" Clark (#34), who played from 1966-1968 for the Bulldogs and set several school and state records as well as going on to become known as one of the greatest football players ever to come out of southwest Virginia. Clark signed with Purdue following high school but never made it through due to his grades, and later even tried at Appalachian State only to receive the same result. It is said that he also tried out for the Washington Redskins of the NFL at one point and was one of their final cuts. Clark was the uncle of brothers (and now-NFL players) Julius and Thomas Jones, who played for the Vikings of Powell Valley. Powell Valley's school, interestingly enough, is located just a few minutes down the road from Appalachia and the Bulldogs and Vikings have a strong rivalry between one another.
9.95 min. | 5.0 user rating		 Democrat President Obama prior to becoming president stated the coal mining industry needs to go bankrupt, or something to that affect. In keeping with the Presidents goal, the Executive Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Lisa P. Jackson announced restrictions upon mountain top coal mining operations. These restrictions will curtail if not eliminate these operations in Kentucky and West Virginia, the Appalachia region. Much to the delight of the environmentalist who are in reality anti-capitalist. This type of mining in this region is done on private land, and yet the Federal government (the Democrats) is inserting itself on private property. 50% of electric in the USA comes from coal fired power plants. Of which 10% of that coal comes from mountain top mining. This will result in less coal being available to produce electricity, thus causing the price of electric you use to rise. This is another successful attempt by the Obama administration to degrade the standard of living in the United States of America. It is said the USA is the Saudi Arabia of coal. However this administration refuses to issue any new coal mining permits. So when the coal beings to run out, the brown outs will spread across the land like a prairie fire. As the title on the book, "Liberalism is a mental disorder" reads, by Dr. Michael Savage. Mountain top mining mountaintop mining propagandabuster propaganda buster Tony Appalachia West Virginia Kentucky EPA Environmental <b>...</b>
5.60 min. | 4.69 user rating
NS 905 RESEARCH TRAIN WITH NS 5608 LEADING AND 2 COACHES ON THE NS APPALACHIA DISTRICT AT GATE CITY AND YUMA VIRGINIA.FILMED ON JUNE 10,2009.FILMED BY ANTHONY WAYNE RHOTON.CHECK OUT MY PHOTOS AT www.flickr.com
4.90 min. | 5.0 user rating		 On June 6, 2011, hundreds of people began a weeklong, 50-mile trek on West Virginia backroads to protest mountaintop removal mining and defend labor rights. Here is a Charleston Gazette video on the first day of the march. See Paul Nyden's related story here (from which the information below comes): wvgazette.com Nearly 250 marchers and supporters of the Appalachia Rising March on Blair Mountain gathered at the Marmet Baseball Field for a rally. An hour later, they headed toward Blair, a town near the Boone-Logan county border, where their march will end on Friday. The marchers plan to walk the same route more than 10000 coal miners took between Aug. 24 and Sept. 4, 1921, marching to Logan County to organize non-union miners. The 1921 March on Blair Mountain was the biggest armed conflict in American labor history. After several days of battles, federal troops arrived and ended the conflict. "We need to preserve Blair Mountain. It represents the movement that laid the foundation for our middle class, said Joe Stanley, a retired miner from Matewan in Mingo County. "We are marching in memory of those miners."
1.65 min. | 5.0 user rating		 FIRST A CSX LOADED COAL TRAIN HEADS EASTBOUND ON THE NS APPALACHIA DISTRICT A FEW MINUTES LATER A CSX SOUTHBOUND LOADED COAL TRAIN COMES THROUGH ON THE OLD CLINCHFIELD RAILROAD NOW A PART OF CSX AND PASSES OVER THE EASTBOUND LOADED COAL TRAIN.WE THEN CATCH THE EASTBOUND AT WATKINS VIRGINIA.FILMED ON APRIL 2,2010.FILMED BY ANTHONY WAYNE RHOTON.CHECK OUT MY PHOTOS AT www.flickr.com CHECK OUT MY MYSPACE AT www.myspace.com AND CHECK OUT MY FACEBOOK PAGE AT www.facebook.com
9.65 min. | 5.0 user rating		 Where is this? McDowell County west Virginia is a hidden area of great scenic treasures in Southern West Virginia. Enjoy this scenic drive with great Appalachia musicians playing music in the background. James Hart and Shawn Wagoneer perform.
5.98 min. | 5.0 user rating		 Magdalene Fry of Huntington, West Virginia, reads her letter to Michelle Obama to demand an end to mountaintop removal. Please urge your elected officials to pass the Clean Water Protection Act and Appalachian Restoration Act to make clean water available again to the people of Appalachia.
9.72 min. | 3.66 user rating

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Savvy Stock Picks--The Company's -Appalachian- mining complexes are located in West -Virginia-, Kentucky, -Virginia- and Maryland. It also has a complementary mining complex of mid ... - Date : Thu, 30 Dec 2010 12:49:28 GMT+00:00
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Bloomberg--In a separate deal, Magnum will acquire assets in West -Virginia- from PostRock Energy Corp. in a cash-and-stock deal valued at $39.75 million. ... - Date : Mon, 27 Dec 2010 16:21:28 GMT+00:00
Gas-drilling rush clogs some W.Va. country roads - NewsOK.com Tweet this news
NewsOK.com--Chesapeake -Appalachia- is the biggest drilling presence in the region, and it's working with school districts in Marshall, Wetzel and Ohio counties to ... - Date : Fri, 10 Dec 2010 07:06:18 GMT+00:00
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TapeBeat--Patriot Coal Corporation (Patriot) is a producer of coal in the eastern United States, with operations and coal reserves in -Appalachia- and the Illinois ... - Date : Thu, 30 Dec 2010 13:15:23 GMT+00:00
PSC staff seek to block PATH power line - Charleston Gazette Tweet this news
Charleston Gazette--AEP and Allegheny are seeking PSC approval for the West -Virginia- portions of the 765-kilovolt line -- called the Potomac -Appalachian- Highline, ... - Date : Fri, 17 Dec 2010 02:24:00 GMT+00:00
Coal Heritage Trail: Byway provides economic boost - Bluefield Daily Telegraph Tweet this news
Bluefield Daily Telegraph--The Heart of -Appalachia- Tourism Authority, the tourism marketing organization for the seven coalfield counties of Russell, Tazewell, Buchanan, Dickenson, ... - Date : Tue, 28 Dec 2010 10:14:39 GMT+00:00
From Appalachia to the Amazon: The Fight Against Coal and Oil - Huffington Post (blog) Tweet this news
Huffington Post (blog)--A coal mine collapsed in the mountains of West -Virginia-. Larry Gibson was a young boy. His family had been living in the mountains of -Appalachia- since the ... - Date : Tue, 14 Dec 2010 17:55:56 GMT+00:00
Bringing Christmas to the hills, hollows: Family organizes donations for ... - Staunton News Leader Tweet this news
Staunton News Leader--Jonathon White, 11, was touched by what he learned about poverty in -Virginia's Appalachian- region in a class two years ago at Guy K. Stump Elementary School ... - Date : Tue, 14 Dec 2010 07:46:01 GMT+00:00
70 students graduate from Berea College - Richmond Register Tweet this news
Richmond Register---...- and has authored numerous books about -Appalachian- issues. She taught at Clinch Valley College (now University of -Virginia- at Wise) from 1955-1977, ... - Date : Tue, 14 Dec 2010 15:08:58 GMT+00:00
Stone Energy Corporation Announces 2011 Capital Budget and Operational Update - PR Newswire (press release) Tweet this news
PR Newswire (press release)--Approximately 25% of the budget is projected to be spent in -Appalachia-, including drilling, facilities and minor land acquisitions. ... - Date : Mon, 13 Dec 2010 19:03:29 GMT+00:00

Municipalities and communities of Wise County, Virginia

County seat: Wise
TownsAppalachia * Big Stone Gap * Coeburn * Pound * St. Paul � * Wise
Footnotes�This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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