Census Data for Hales Ford
As far as we can tell, Hales Ford<1> 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 Hales Ford, you might be interested in some nearby communities where we do:
- Radford
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Radford is located in Bedford County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Radford
- Bedford
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northeast)
- Boones Mill
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Vinton
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the northwest)
- Rocky Mount
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southwest)
- Roanoke
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Hurt
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the east)
- Altavista
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the east)
- Gretna
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Troutville
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northwest)
- Salem
(23 miles [37 km] to the northwest)
- Buchanan
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the north)
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- Fincastle
(26 miles [41.8 km] to the northwest)
- Chatham
(27 miles [43.5 km] to the southeast)
- Chatham is located in Pittsylvania County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Chatham
Bedford County ...
Hales Ford is located in Bedford County<3>.
For more information, please visit our Census Page for Bedford County.
Miscellaneous Information for Hales Ford ...
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 Bedford County or the community of Hales Ford:
- The GNIS Codes ...
- The current system of identification is called the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). The following GNIS codes relate to Hales Ford:
- GNIS ID for Hales Ford: 1674850
- GNIS ID for Bedford County: 1674818
- GNIS ID for State of Virginia: 1779803
- Misc. Census Codes ...
- Hales Ford 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 Hales Ford.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | It's a common practice for mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names. So Hales Ford may originally have been Hale's Ford. Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Hales Ford might be written as Hale Ford. For more information, please visit our Genealogy Helper Page for Hales Ford. |
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| <3> | If you're interested in how the shape of Virginia's counties, including Bedford, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. |