Census Data for Dewey
As far as we can tell, Dewey has not been included in past Census counts, so there is no population information for this community.
While we don't have census information for Dewey, you might be interested in some nearby communities where we do:
- Pound
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
- Jenkins
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the north)
- Fleming - Neon
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the north)
- Fleming - Neon is located in Letcher County (KY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Fleming - Neon
- Wise
(8 miles [12.9 km] to the southeast)
- Whitesburg
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the west)
- Norton
(10 miles [16.1 km] to the south)
- Clintwood
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the northeast)
- Appalachia
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the southwest)
- Coeburn
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
- Big Stone Gap
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Lynch
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Clinchco
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the east)
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- Benham
(18 miles [29 km] to the southwest)
- Blackey
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Blackey is located in Letcher County (KY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackey
- Wheelwright
(18 miles [29 km] to the north)
- Wheelwright is located in Floyd County (KY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wheelwright
Wise County ...
Dewey is located in Wise County<2>.
For more information, please visit our Census Page for Wise County.
Miscellaneous Information for Dewey ...
The Federal government has assigned various identifying codes to each community, county and state. At one time or another, the US Census Bureau has used one (or more) of the following identifiers when referring to either Wise County or the community of Dewey:
- The GNIS Codes ...
- The current system of identification is called the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). The following GNIS codes relate to Dewey:
- GNIS ID for Dewey: 1494899
- GNIS ID for Wise County: 1496656
- GNIS ID for State of Virginia: 1779803
- The FIPS Codes ...
- An earlier (and largely obsolete) identification method was called the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS):
- State Code: 51 (Virginia)
- County Code: 195 (Wise County)
- Place Code: 22352 (Dewey)
- State & County Code: 51/195 (Virginia / Wise County)
- State & Place Code: 51/22352 (Virginia / Dewey)
- Misc. Census Codes ...
- Dewey is located in Census Region #3 (the South Region) and Division #5 (the South Atlantic Division).
For more information about the various Federal identification codes, please visit our Misc Page for Dewey.
Footnotes ...
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