Census Data for Laurel
As far as we can tell, Laurel 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 Laurel, you might be interested in some nearby communities where we do:
- Appalachia
(2 miles [3.2 km] to the east)
- Big Stone Gap
(4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
- Lynch
(5 miles [8 km] to the northwest)
- Benham
(7 miles [11.3 km] to the northwest)
- Cumberland
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the northwest)
- Norton
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Whitesburg
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the north)
- Duffield
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the south)
- Saint Charles
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the southwest)
- Saint Charles is located in Lee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Charles
- Wise
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
- Pennington Gap
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the southwest)
- Pennington Gap is located in Lee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pennington Gap
- Blackey
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the northwest)
- Blackey is located in Letcher County (KY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Blackey
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- Clinchport
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Clinchport is located in Scott County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clinchport
- Pound
(19 miles [30.6 km] to the northeast)
- Evarts
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
Wise County ...
Laurel is located in Wise County<2>.
For more information, please visit our Census Page for Wise County.
Miscellaneous Information for Laurel ...
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 Laurel:
- The GNIS Codes ...
- The current system of identification is called the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). The following GNIS codes relate to Laurel:
- GNIS ID for Laurel: 1493179
- 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: 44300 (Laurel)
- State & County Code: 51/195 (Virginia / Wise County)
- State & Place Code: 51/44300 (Virginia / Laurel)
- Misc. Census Codes ...
- Laurel 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 Laurel.
Footnotes ...
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