Rollins Branch, West Virginia

To help identify the number of people who live in Rollins Branch and the surrounding area, we have drawn concentric rings centered on Rollins Branch. We counted the number of communities within each ring and summed their populations.^<4> We don't have the population of Rollins Branch, so its people haven't been included.

Radius	No of Communities	2016 Population	Change Since 2010
5 mi [8 km]	2	1,280	-8.18%
10 mi [16 km]	3	1,899	-7.9%
15 mi [24 km]	5	4,021	-8.2%
20 mi [32 km]	13	9,036	-11.37%
25 mi [40 km]	24	31,732	-6.9%
30 mi [48 km]	33	47,769	-4.28%

Miscellaneous Information for Rollins Branch ...

The Federal government has assigned various identifying codes to each community, county and state. At one time or another, the US Census Bureau has referenced one (or more) of the following identifiers when referring to either Wyoming County or the community of Rollins Branch:

The GNIS Codes ...

The current system of identification is called the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). The following GNIS codes relate to Rollins Branch:

GNIS ID for Rollins Branch: 1555520

GNIS ID for Wyoming County: 1550061

GNIS ID for West Virginia: 1779805

The FIPS Codes ...

An earlier (and largely obsolete) identification method was called the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS):

State Code: 54 (West Virginia)

County Code: 109 (Wyoming County)

Place Code: 69988 (Rollins Branch)

State & County Code: 54/109 (West Virginia / Wyoming County)

State & Place Code: 54/69988 (West Virginia / Rollins Branch)

Misc. Census Codes ...

Rollins Branch 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 Rollins Branch.

Other Roadside Stops ...

Visit our Community Index for West Virginia

About Wyoming County

About West Virginia

Off-the-Road Links ...

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Rollins Branch. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

The official website for State of West Virginia: www.wv.gov/

The official website of the U.S. Board on Geographic Names (BGN)

The official website of the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS)

Footnotes ...

<1>	It's a common practice for mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names. So Rollins Branch may originally have been Rollin's Branch. Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Rollins Branch might be written as Rollin Branch. For more information, please visit our Genealogy Helper Page for Rollins Branch. - Return to Citation
<2>	Population counts have been provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. - Return to Citation
<3>	Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'point-to-point' distance from Rollins Branch. A straight line distance ignores things like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line drawn from Point A (ie- Rollins Branch) to Point B. Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Rollins Branch. The point that we are using is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.7229, Longitude: -81.5962 [Map]. In this case, the coordinates for Rollins Branch have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). - Return to Citation
<4>	The communities in our count are those provided by the 2010 Census, so keep in mind that our population rings will only include the people living in those communities. Smaller communities usually don't participate directly in the Census and therefore they won't be included. While our count is a close approximation, it shouldn't be considered as a complete or accurate count. - Return to Citation

For additional information, please visit our Glossary for Rollins Branch.