Boissevain is an

unincorporated community An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have ...

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counterparts of incorporated places, such ...

(CDP), and former

coal town A coal town, also known as a coal camp or patch, is a type of company town or mining community established by the employer, a mining company, which imports workers to the site to work the mineral find. The company develops it and provides residen ...

in Tazewell County,

Virginia Virginia, officially the Commonwealth of Virginia, is a state in the Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States, between the Atlantic Coast and the Appalachian Mountains. The geography and climate of the Commonwealth ar ...

, United States. It was defined as a

(then termed an unincorporated place) at the

1950 United States Census The United States census of 1950, conducted by the Census Bureau, determined the resident population of the United States to be 150,697,361, an increase of 14.5 percent over the 131,669,275 persons enumerated during the 1940 census. This was ...

under the spelling Boissevaine, when it had a population of 1,197.1950 Census of Population
" U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on August 18, 2010. It did not reappear again as a CDP until the 2020 census with a population of 457. Boissevain is served by the Abbs Valley -Boissevain - Pocahontas Rescue Squad Inc - Rescue 945 for Emergency Medical Services.

References

Coal towns in Virginia Unincorporated communities in Tazewell County, Virginia Unincorporated communities in Virginia Census-designated places in Tazewell County, Virginia Census-designated places in Virginia {{TazewellCountyVA-geo-stub