Wytheville, Virginia Town of Wytheville, Virginia Location in the Commonwealth of Virginia Location in the Commonwealth of Virginia State Virginia Town 14.3 sq mi (37.0 km2) Wytheville (/ w v l/ with-vil) is a town in, and the governmental center of county of, Wythe County, Virginia, United States.
It is titled after George Wythe, a signer of the United States Declaration of Independence, and mentor to Thomas Jefferson.
Wytheville's populace was 8,211 at the 2010 census. Located at the intersection of Interstate Highways 77 and 81, the town has long been a crossroads for passengers.
During the American Civil War, Wytheville had a strategic importance, and was attacked in 1863 (Toland's Raid) and 1865 (Stoneman's 1865 Raid).
The town is also the place of birth of Edith Bolling Wilson, wife of President Woodrow Wilson.
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Wythe County was created in 1789 and titled for George Wythe, the "father of American Jurisprudence" and signer of the Declaration of Independence.
In May 1790, Chris Simmerman donated 90 acres, along with John Davis's 10 acres, to establish a town and county seat.
Robert Adams instead of a town survey in November of that year, dividing the region into half-acre lots.
The town didn't have an official name yet, but was generally known as Wythe Court House.
Two years later, in October 1792, the town was officially titled Evansham, for prominent small-town citizen Jesse Evans.
After a disastrous fire in March 1839, the town was retitled Wytheville.
As the epidemic progressed, ambulances drove victims roughly 80 miles (130 km) trip to Memorial Crippled Children's Hospital in Roanoke, Virginia.
The Town Council erected billboards at all five entrances to the county warning potential visitors of the epidemic and urging tourists to come again the following year.
John's Lutheran Church and Cemetery, Wythe County Poorhouse Farm, and Wytheville Historic District are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. Wytheville is positioned at 36 56 52 N 81 5 13 W (36.947679, 81.086955). According to the United States Enumeration Bureau, the town has a total region of 14.3 sq mi (37.0 km2), of which 0.04 sq mi (0.1 km2) (0.14%) is water.
Wytheville is an meaningful point on both I-77 and I-81 and lies amidst a wrong-way concurrency of I-77 and I-81.
On the I-77 corridor, it is positioned about halfway between Charleston, West Virginia and Charlotte, North Carolina.
Wytheville's hot air balloon-themed water tower, inspired by the town's annual Chautauqua Festival balloon launches, can be seen by I-81 travellers near the I-77 interchange.
Highways, and its locale in the foothills of the Blue Ridge Mountains, Wytheville is known as "The Hub of Southwest Virginia" and "the Crossroads of the Blue Ridge".
Due to its elevation, the climate of Wytheville is either classified as mountain temperate or humid continental (Koppen Cfb or Dfb, in the order given), and the town straddles the border between USDA Plant Hardiness Zones 6 - B and 7 - A. Summers are warm and humid, although decidedly cooler than low-elevation places inside the state, with only 4.6 days of 90 F (32 C)+ highs annually, and winters are generally cool to cold with occasional intervening warm periods and 11 evenings of sub-10 F ( 12 C) lows.
Climate data for Wytheville, Virginia, elev.
(0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 (0) 0 Average snowy days ( 0.1 in) 3.6 2.9 1.3 0.5 0 0 0 0 0 0 0.3 2.4 11.0 As of the census of 2000, there were 7,804 citizens , 3,504 homeholds, and 2,112 families living in the town.
There were 3,776 housing units at an average density of 264.6 per square mile (102.2/km ).
The ethnic makeup of the town was 90.76% White, 7.19% African American, 0.13% Native American, 0.70% Asian, 0.03% Pacific Islander, 0.33% from other competitions, and 0.86% from two or more competitions.
In the town, the populace was spread out with 19.3% under the age of 18, 6.9% from 18 to 24, 25.3% from 25 to 44, 25.6% from 45 to 64, and 22.8% who were 65 years of age or older.
The median income for a homehold in the town was $28,043, and the median income for a family was $41,513.
The courthouse in Wytheville, Virginia.
Big Walker Lookout Tower, a 100-foot observation fortress located 12 miles to the north of Wytheville The town is home to a Chautauqua Festival, held the third weekend in June every year since 1985.
The existence of the hot air balloons for the annual festival inspired the balloon-themed painting of the town's water tower, visible to I-81 travellers near the I-77 interchange.
The Festival is held at Elizabeth Brown Memorial Park and is cosponsored by the county, town and the Wythe Arts Council. David French Boyd, president of Louisiana State University, 1877-1880; 1884-1886, born in Wytheville in 1834 Frederick Bittle Kegley, Wythe County historian United States Enumeration Bureau.
"Wythe County History".
Wythe County Genealogical and Historical Association.
12, series 2 (Richmond, VA: Virginia State Department of Health, April 1951) A Summer Without Children: An Oral History of Wythe County, Virginia's 1950 Polio Epidemic.
Wytheville, VA: Town of Wytheville Department of Museums.
"Station Name: VA WYTHEVILLE 1 S".
"Annual Estimates of the Resident Population for Incorporated Places: April 1, 2010 to July 1, 2015".
"Enumeration of Population and Housing".
"Chautauqua Festival - Wytheville, Virginia".
Municipalities and communities of Wythe County, Virginia, United States Virginia Towns in Virginia
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