Abbs Valley is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
and
census-designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), 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 counte ...
(CDP) located in
Tazewell County, Virginia
Tazewell County () is a county located in the southwestern portion of the Commonwealth of Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 40,429. Its county seat is Tazewell.
Tazewell County is part of the Bluefield, WV-VA Micropoli ...
, United States. It was first listed as a CDP in the
2020 census[ with a population of 299.
Abb's Valley is named after Absalom Looney of Looney's Creek, considered the first white person to explore the area."The captives of Abb's valley: a legend of frontier life," in Madge Looney Crane & Phillip L. Crane, ''Most Distinguished Characters on the American Frontier: Children of Robert (b. 1692-1702, d. 1770) and Elizabeth Looney of Augusta (now Botetourt) County, Virginia, and some of their descendants.'' Volume II, Chapter 2. M.L. Crane, 1998]
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References
Unincorporated communities in Tazewell County, Virginia
Unincorporated communities in Virginia
Census-designated places in Tazewell County, Virginia
Census-designated places in Virginia
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