The elevation of Coeburn is 1990 feet.
The population of Coeburn is approximately 2,165.
The approximate number of families is 919.
The amount of land area in Coeburn is 5.31 sq. kilometers.
The amount of surface water is 0 sq kilometers.
The distance from Coeburn to Washington DC is 400 miles.
The distance to Richmond, the Virginia state capital, is 349 miles. |
Wise County was established in Southwest
Virginia in 1856 and is one of only seven coal producing counties in
Virginia. It was named for Henry A. Wise, who had just become
Governor of Virginia.
Coeburn's name was derived from W.W. Coe,
chief engineer of the Norfolk and Western Railway, and Judge W.E. Burns
of Lebanon, Virginia.
Coeburn secured a charter to become a town
on February 23, 1894.
The first passenger train passed through
Coeburn in 1891 and many of the older residents of the county, who had
never seen a passenger train, turned out in their best clothes to pay
tribute to the agency that was now opening the wealth of Wise County to
the world.1
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Since Coeburn is located in the far
southwestern part of the Commonwealth, it is actually closer
to 7 other
state capitals {Columbus, OH; Frankfort, KY; Charleston, WV;
Nashville,
TN; Raleigh, NC; Atlanta, GA; and Columbia, SC} than it is to its own
capital of Richmond.
1Addington,
Luther F., History of Wise County, Virginia, published by
The Bicentennial Committee of Wise County, Virginia, copyright 1956 |
