Wise, Virginia Wise, Virginia Wise County Courthouse Wise County Courthouse Official seal of Wise, Virginia County Wise Wise is a town in Wise County, Virginia, United States.
The populace was 3,286 at the 2010 census. It is the governmental center of county of Wise County. It was originally incorporated as the town of Gladeville in 1874.
The town's name was changed to Wise in 1924. Wise is titled after Henry A.
Wise, the last Virginia governor before the American Civil War and the only governor to hail from the Eastern Shore of Virginia.
The town is also the home of the University of Virginia's College at Wise.
3.1 Wise County School System enhance schools Wise is positioned in the middle of the county of Wise.
According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 3.1 square miles (8.0 km ), all of it land.
Buildings in Wise In the town, the populace was spread out with 19.7% under the age of 18, 11.3% from 18 to 24, 30.7% from 25 to 44, 23.4% from 45 to 64, and 15.0% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town was $28,531, and the median income for a family was $36,875.
Wise features five enhance schools of the Wise County Public School System, one private school, and one college.
Wise County School System enhance schools Wise Primary School Wise County Career-Technical Center Wise County Alternative Education Center Wise County Christian School University of Virginia's College at Wise The biggest highway in Wise is Orby Cantrell Highway (US 23) a north-south highway that runs through the west end of the town.
Wise is also home to the Lonesome Pine Airport (LNP).
The Appalachian Children's Theater (ACT) promotes performing arts and fine arts education for kids in Southwest Virginia, Eastern Kentucky, and Northeast Tennessee.
Harris Art Gallery is positioned on the site of the Wise County Public Library.
The University of Virginia's College at Wise possesses a state of the art theater that usually sees two productions a year.
The Town of Wise has one sister city: Three buildings on Main Street in the town of Wise are on the National Register of Historic Places. The Colonial Hotel, now known as the Inn at Wise Court House, was added to the Register in 1991.
The Wise County Courthouse was added to the Register ten years earlier, in 1981.
Fulton House. The downtown region hosts the Battles at Wise Civil War Living History Presentation and Re-Enactment on the second weekend of July each year. According to the Koppen Climate Classification system, Wise has a humid subtropical climate, abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps. Climate data for Wise, Virginia Weldon Cooper Center 2010 Enumeration totals by suburbs in Virginia Wise County History National Park Service - National Register of Historic Places Town of Wise - Civil War Re-Enactment Climate Summary for Wise, Virginia "Wise, Virginia Travel Weather Averages (Weatherbase)".
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