Newport, Giles County, Virginia
Newport is an unincorporated community in Giles County, Virginia, United States, with the ZIP code of 24128.
Newport, Giles County, Virginia | |
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Unincorporated community | |
Newport Newport Newport | |
Coordinates: 37°17′39″N 80°29′43″W | |
Country | United States |
State | Virginia |
County | Giles |
Elevation | 1,929 ft (588 m) |
Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
ZIP code | 24128 |
Area code(s) | 540 |
GNIS feature ID | 1497042[1] |
The community is just south of the Sinking Creek Valley Cluster and southeast of the Mountain Lake Wilderness Cluster, areas in the Jefferson National Forest designated by the Wilderness Society as containing "Mountain Treasures".[2]
Notable people
- Bob Porterfield, baseball player
- Mike Williams, baseball player
- Yancey Strickler, co-founder of Kickstarter
- Michael Huffman, songwriter
gollark: We have experimental self-organizing mesh networks already, and modern networking hardware is fairly powerful and cheap. Although I don't know how good the mesh stuff is at dealing with really fast re-peering, which is necessary in practice.
gollark: No, those are basically already solved, the incentives are difficult.
gollark: Anyway, I doubt this problem is *impossible*, but it seems *hard*.
gollark: Wrong.
gollark: The current structure is at least kind of good because most devices don't need a very big routing table and most devices can pay a flat rate for connectivity.
References
- U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Newport, Giles County, Virginia
- Parsons, Shireen (May 1999). Virginia's Mountain Treasures, The Unprotected Wildlands of the Jefferson National Forest. Washington, D. C.: The Wilderness Society, OCLC: 42806366.
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