Sweet Springs, West Virginia

Community	2016 ^<1> Population	Direction	Distance ^<2>
Roanoke (VA)	99,660	SE	29 miles [46.7 km]
Blacksburg (VA)	45,038	S	29 miles [46.7 km]
Salem (VA)	25,549	SE	25 miles [40.2 km]

Monroe County ...

Sweet Springs is located in Monroe County.

For more information, please visit our Census Page for Monroe County.

Population Rings for Sweet Springs ...

To help identify the number of people who live in Sweet Springs and the surrounding area, we have drawn concentric rings centered on Sweet Springs. We counted the number of communities within each ring and summed their populations.^<3> We don't have the population of Sweet Springs, so its people haven't been included.

Radius	No of Communities	2016 Population	Change Since 2010
15 mi [24 km]	4	4,306	-1.28%
20 mi [32 km]	7	14,297	-2.86%
25 mi [40 km]	12	41,997	+0.71%
30 mi [48 km]	17	191,878	+2.75%

Miscellaneous Information for Sweet Springs ...

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 Monroe County or the community of Sweet Springs:

The GNIS Codes ...

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

GNIS ID for Sweet Springs: 1553162

GNIS ID for Monroe County: 1557702

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: 063 (Monroe County)

Place Code: 78724 (Sweet Springs)

State & County Code: 54/063 (West Virginia / Monroe County)

State & Place Code: 54/78724 (West Virginia / Sweet Springs)

Misc. Census Codes ...

Sweet Springs 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 Sweet Springs.

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Off-the-Road Links ...

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

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

Footnotes ...

<1>	Population counts have been provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. - Return to Citation
<2>	Our distances are not driving distances, but are calculated as a 'straight-line' (or point-to-point) distance from Sweet Springs. A straight line distance ignores obstructions like rivers, canyons, lakes, et cetera - it's truly a line from Point A (ie- Sweet Springs) to Point B. Our distance measurements begin at a specific point in Sweet Springs. The point that we are using is located at these GPS coordinates - Latitude: 37.6285, Longitude: -80.2414 [Map]. In this case, the coordinates for Sweet Springs have been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). - Return to Citation
<3>	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 Sweet Springs.