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Salem city, Virginia

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—newspaper titles
—digitized titles
19historic places
—earliest paper
1968formed
25,346pop. 2020
3cemeteries
—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 19 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1971. Most listings are in or near Salem (Independent City), Salem, Salem (Independent CIty).

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 Salem city titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

12 of 19 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

19 listed properties
PropertyCityTypeListed
Academy Street SchoolSalem (Independent City)Building1981
Blair ApartmentsSalem (Independent City)Building2017
Downtown Salem Historic DistrictSalem (Independent City)District1996
Evans HouseSalem (Independent City)Building1972
Hart Motor CompanySalemBuilding2024
Main Campus Complex, Roanoke CollegeSalem (Independent City)Building1973
MontereySalem (Independent City)Building1999
North Broad Street Historic DistrictSalem (Independent CIty)District2019
Peacock-Salem Launderers and CleanersSalem (Independent City)Building2019
Preston HouseSalem (Independent City)Building2005
Preston House (Boundary Increase)Salem (Independent City)Building2006
Roanoke Veterans Administration Hospital Historic DistrictSalem (Independent City)District2012
Salem Post OfficeSalem (Independent City)Building1992
Salem Presbyterian ChurchSalem (Independent City)Building1974
Salem Presbyterian ParsonageSalem (Independent City)Building1992
Southwest Virginia Holiness Association Camp MeetingSalem (Independent City)Building1996
Valley Railroad BridgeSalemStructure2009
Valleydale Packers Inc.Salem (Independent City)Building2019
Williams-Brown House and StoreSalem (Independent City)Building1971

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

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Salem (Ic) was formed in 1968 (1968-01-01) from unknown / original county.

Salem made an independent city from ROANOKE.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Salem city population from 1970 to 2020 (Census historical series).

25k24k22k197020002020
1970198020002020
21,98223,95824,74725,346

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

3 cemeteries and 0 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 3 of 3 listed
NameLatLon
Church Hill Cemetery37.27924-80.06913
East Hill Cemetery37.29346-80.04754
Harris Cemetery37.31318-80.02893

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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