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Dickenson County, Virginia

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1historic places

—earliest paper

1880formed

14,124pop. 2020

164cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 1 listed property in the county, first listed in 1982. Most listings are in or near Clintwood.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for Virginia is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Dickenson titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

1 of 1 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

1 listed property

Property	City	Type	Listed
Dickenson County Courthouse	Clintwood	Building	1982

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Dickenson was formed in 1880 (1880-03-03) from Buchanan, Wise, a small area of RUSSELL.

DICKENSON created from BUCHANAN, WISE and a small area of RUSSELL (RUSSELL loss not mapped).

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Dickenson County population from 1890 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1890	1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
5,077	7,747	13,542	21,266	23,393	20,211	19,806	16,395	14,124

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

164 cemeteries and 6 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 80 of 164 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Adkins Cemetery	37.05621	-82.40431
Anderson Cemetery	37.11649	-82.28792
Anderson Cemetery	37.21093	-82.3857
Arlington Cemetery	37.13038	-82.33764
Baker Cemetery	37.13454	-82.44042
Ball Cemetery	37.06732	-82.31153
Bise Cemetery	37.1126	-82.41153
Blair Cemetery	37.10232	-82.31458
Buchanan Cemetery	37.11815	-82.47959
Buchanan Cemetery	37.11371	-82.47904
Buchanan Cemetery	37.10843	-82.47959
Byers Cemetery	37.17927	-82.26319
Childress Cemetery	37.07315	-82.39737
Colley Cemetery	37.23149	-82.3682
Company Cemetery	37.18316	-82.46348
Counts Cemetery	37.06704	-82.2393
Counts Cemetery	37.10427	-82.28958
Counts Cemetery	37.15455	-82.28819
Dameron Cemetery	37.07649	-82.31847
Davis Cemetery	37.05038	-82.48126
Davis Cemetery	37.21205	-82.31209
Davis Cemetery	37.21455	-82.34764
Deel Cemetery	37.17482	-82.25208
Dingus Cemetery	37.03621	-82.45737
Dotson Cemetery	37.09065	-82.46987
Dutton Cemetery	37.18982	-82.45987
Duty Cemetery	37.09677	-82.2043
Edwards Cemetery	36.98649	-82.39681
Edwards Cemetery	37.1651	-82.28903
Elkins Cemetery	37.13593	-82.51904
Farmer Cemetery	37.06621	-82.17263
Farmer Cemetery	37.16316	-82.29431
Farmers Cemetery	37.18954	-82.46431
Fay Cemetery	37.2451	-82.37292
Fleming Cemetery	37.1301	-82.44015
Flemming Cemetery	37.19593	-82.37487
Freeman Cemetery	37.0251	-82.46404
Grizzle Cemetery	37.03538	-82.36348
Hale Cemetery	37.05815	-82.47765
Hale Cemetery	37.08871	-82.36459
Hall Cemetery	37.24094	-82.3807
Hamilton Cemetery	37.01871	-82.45376
Hawkins Cemetery	37.19427	-82.40376
Hay Cemetery	37.12204	-82.29236
Hay Cemetery	37.19927	-82.31375
Hewitt Cemetery	37.19677	-82.31903
Hibbitts Cemetery	37.09065	-82.49487
Hill Cemetery	37.11732	-82.50071
Holbrook Cemetery	37.01788	-82.32264
Jenkins Cemetery	37.0151	-82.32403
Johnson Cemetery	37.13205	-82.19347
Keith Cemetery	37.03038	-82.30153
Keith Cemetery	37.07815	-82.50459
Kennedy Cemetery	37.07315	-82.45181
Kiser Cemetery	37.01565	-82.23597
Kiser Cemetery	37.02593	-82.25264
Kiser Cemetery	37.0301	-82.39681
Kiser Cemetery	37.03788	-82.17735
Lambert Cemetery	37.0676	-82.30153
Lambert Cemetery	37.12288	-82.45904
Lane Cemetery	37.08232	-82.50932
Large Cemetery	37.08288	-82.44959
Long Cemetery	37.00649	-82.35931
Long Cemetery	37.03427	-82.33042
Long Cemetery	37.00204	-82.31625
Looney Cemetery	37.28605	-82.27099
McCown Cemetery	37.20788	-82.35264
McCoy Cemetery	36.97593	-82.3457
McCoy Cemetery	37.0101	-82.36153
McCoy Cemetery	37.03843	-82.40209
McCoy Cemetery	37.0751	-82.43792
McCoy Cemetery	36.9826	-82.38514
Moore Cemetery	37.21038	-82.41126
Moretz Cemetery	36.9751	-82.36764
Mullins Cemetery	37.00871	-82.32042
Mullins Cemetery	37.00871	-82.34681
Mullins Cemetery	37.0676	-82.44376
Mullins Cemetery	37.17816	-82.42348
Mullins Cemetery	37.19038	-82.36153
Mullins Cemetery	37.19093	-82.42654

Historical populated places — 6 of 6

Name	Lat	Lon
Alka	37.03122	-82.47404
Debusk	37.06122	-82.28098
Huckleberry	37.209	-82.44043
Ibex	37.05122	-82.48182
Judge	37.06816	-82.18319
Ramsey	37.09177	-82.38209

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

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