Red Ash, Virginia

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Red Ash, Virginia
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CLOSEUP OF AN OLD COAL COMPANY MINING TOWN OF RED ASH VIRGINIA, NEAR RICHARDS IN THE SOUTHWESTERN PART OF THE STATE.... - NARA - 556332.jpg

Red Ash in 1974
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Red Ash, Virginia
Coordinates: 37°6′48″N81°52′15″W / 37.11333°N 81.87083°W / 37.11333; -81.87083 Coordinates: 37°6′48″N81°52′15″W / 37.11333°N 81.87083°W / 37.11333; -81.87083
Country United States
State Virginia
County Tazewell
Elevation 2,155 ft (657 m)
Time zone Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
  Summer (DST) EDT (UTC-4)
ZIP codes 24640
GNIS feature ID 1499940 [1]

Red Ash is an unincorporated community and coal town located in Tazewell County, Virginia, United States. The community is located along VSR 804, which runs parallel to US 460 north of Raven, Virginia.

A coal town, also known as a coal camp or patch is typically situated in a remote place and provides residences for a population of miners to reside near a coal mine. A coal town is a type of company town or mining community established by the employer, a mining company, which imports workers to work the mineral find. The 'town founding' process is not limited to coal mining, nor mining, but is generally found where mineral wealth is located in a remote or undeveloped area, which is then opened for exploitation, normally first by having some transportation infrastructure brought into being first. Often, such minerals were the result of logging operations by pushing into a wilderness forest, which clear-cutting operations then allowed geologists and cartographers, to chart and plot the lands, allowing efficient discovery of natural resources and their exploitation.

Tazewell County, Virginia County in the United States

Tazewell County is a county located in the southwestern portion of the U.S. state of Virginia. As of the 2010 census, the population was 45,078. Its county seat is Tazewell.

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