Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 1003
Land area (2000): 8.053569 sq. miles (20.858646 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.035861 sq. miles (0.092879 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 8.089430 sq. miles (20.951525 sq. km)
FIPS code: 70096
Located within: Virginia (VA), FIPS 51
Location: 36.873480 N, 81.760833 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 24370
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Saltville
Wikipedia
Saltville Archaeological Site SV-2 an apparent Pre- Clovis archaeological site located in the Saltville Valley near Saltville, Virginia. The site was excavated from 1992 to 1997 by paleogeographer Jerry N. McDonald of the Virginia Museum of Natural History.
The Saltville Valley today is located in the valley and ridge province of the Appalachian Mountains near southwest Virginia. The valley is shaped like a scalene triangle, and it measures in elevation 1740’/530 m above sea level, 8000’/2.4 km lengthwise, and 2750’/0.84 km at its greatest width. Over 20 percent of the valley is submerged in standing water due to industrial mining of salt brine from the late 19th century to the early 20th century. Site SV-2 is located in the south western part of the Saltville Valley by the northern edge of an artificial reservoir established by the Olin Mathieson Chemical Corporation from 1964-1965.
Usage examples of "saltville".
There had been nothing done, save a few cavalry raids, such as our own, and Averill's attempt to gain and break up the Rebel salt works at Wytheville, and Saltville.