Boissevain, Virginia

Boissevain, Virginia
Unincorporated community & Former census-designated place
Boissevain, Virginia
Coordinates: 37°16′54″N 81°22′49″W / 37.28167°N 81.38028°W / 37.28167; -81.38028Coordinates: 37°16′54″N 81°22′49″W / 37.28167°N 81.38028°W / 37.28167; -81.38028
Country	United States
State	Virginia
County	Tazewell
Elevation	2,454 ft (748 m)
Time zone	Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)
Area code(s)	276
GNIS feature ID	1492603^[1]

Boissevain is an unincorporated community and former coal town in Tazewell County, Virginia, United States. It was defined as a census-designated place (then termed an unincorporated place) at the 1950 United States Census under the spelling Boissevaine when it had a population of 1,197.^[2] It did not reappear at subsequent censuses.

Boissevain is served by the Abbs Valley-Boissevain Pocahontas Rescue Squad Inc - Rescue 945 for Emergency Medical Services.

References

↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Boissevain, Virginia
↑ "1950 Census of Population." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on August 18, 2010.

Municipalities and communities of Tazewell County, Virginia, United States

County seat: Tazewell

Towns	Bluefield Cedar Bluff Pocahontas Richlands Tazewell

CDPs	Claypool Hill Gratton Raven‡ Springville

Unincorporated communities	Abbs Valley Adria Amonate Bandy Big Vein Bishop Boissevain Burke's Garden Busthead Coaldan Doran Falls Mills Fourway Frog Level Horsepen Jewell Ridge Liberty Maiden Spring North Tazwell Paintlick Pisgah Pounding Mill Red Ash Seaboard Tannersville Tiptop Thompson Valley Wardell Yards‡

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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