Census Data for Purcell
As far as we can tell, Purcell 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 Purcell, you might be interested in some nearby communities where we do:
- Pennington Gap
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the southwest)
- Pennington Gap is located in Lee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pennington Gap
- Saint Charles
(3 miles [4.8 km] to the west)
- Saint Charles is located in Lee County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Charles
- Jonesville
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Benham
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the north)
- Cumberland
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Evarts
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the west)
- Lynch
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the north)
- Duffield
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the southeast)
- Big Stone Gap
(13 miles [20.9 km] to the northeast)
- Appalachia
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the northeast)
- Clinchport
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the southeast)
- Clinchport is located in Scott County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Clinchport
- Harlan
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
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- Loyall
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
- Loyall is located in Harlan County (KY)
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Loyall
- Sneedville
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the southwest)
- Norton
(22 miles [35.4 km] to the northeast)
Lee County ...
Purcell is located in Lee County<2>.
For more information, please visit our Census Page for Lee County.
Miscellaneous Information for Purcell ...
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 Lee County or the community of Purcell:
- The GNIS Codes ...
- The current system of identification is called the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). The following GNIS codes relate to Purcell:
- GNIS ID for Purcell: 1496120
- GNIS ID for Lee County: 1496538
- 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: 105 (Lee County)
- Place Code: 64992 (Purcell)
- State & County Code: 51/105 (Virginia / Lee County)
- State & Place Code: 51/64992 (Virginia / Purcell)
- Misc. Census Codes ...
- Purcell 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 Purcell.
Footnotes ...
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