Yards, Virginia and West Virginia

Yards
Unincorporated community
Yards Show map of West Virginia Yards Show map of the US Location within the state of West Virginia
Coordinates: 37°17′32″N 81°18′36″W / 37.29222°N 81.31000°W / 37.29222; -81.31000Coordinates: 37°17′32″N 81°18′36″W / 37.29222°N 81.31000°W / 37.29222; -81.31000
Country	United States
States	Virginia and West Virginia
County	Tazewell (Virginia) and Mercer (West Virginia)
Elevation	2,382 ft (726 m)
Time zone	Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)
GNIS feature ID	1477028^[1]

Yards is an unincorporated community straddling the border between Tazewell County, Virginia and Mercer County, West Virginia, United States. Yards is located on the Bluestone River, 4 miles (6.4 km) northwest of Bluefield, Virginia. Yards had a post office on the Virginia side of the border from 1888 until May 28, 1994.^[2] The community was named for its railroad yards.^[3]

References

↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Yards, Virginia and West Virginia
↑ "Postmaster Finder - Post Offices by ZIP Code". United States Postal Service. Retrieved December 22, 2012.
↑ Tennis, Joe (2004). Southwest Virginia Crossroads: An Almanac of Place Names And Places to See. The Overmountain Press. p. 166. ISBN 9781570722561.

Municipalities and communities of Tazewell County, Virginia, United States

County seat: Tazewell

Towns	Bluefield Cedar Bluff Pocahontas Richlands Tazewell

CDPs	Claypool Hill Gratton Raven‡ Springville

Unincorporated communities	Abbs Valley Adria Amonate Bandy Big Vein Bishop Boissevain Burke's Garden Busthead Coaldan Cove Creek Doran Falls Mills Fourway Frog Level Horsepen Jewell Ridge Liberty Maiden Spring North Tazwell Paintlick Pisgah Pounding Mill Red Ash Seaboard Tannersville Tiptop Thompson Valley Wardell Yards‡

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

Municipalities and communities of Mercer County, West Virginia, United States

County seat: Princeton

Cities	Bluefield Princeton

Towns	Athens Bramwell Matoaka Oakvale

CDPs	Bluewell Brush Fork Lashmeet Montcalm

Other communities	Ada Arista Barn Beeson Black‡ Bluestone Camp Creek Cashers Hill Ceres Chestnut Knob Coaldale Coopers Crystal Dott Duhring Dunns Eads Mill Edison Egeria‡ Elgood Flat Top Flipping Gardner Gardner Junction Giatto Glenwood Godfrey Goodwill Green Valley Hardy Hatcher Hiawatha Ingleside Johnston Town Kale Kegley Kellysville Lake Shawnee Lamar‡ Lerona Lilly Grove Littlesburg Lorton Lick Lovern Maple Acre Maple View McComas Melrose Micajah Midway Mount Olive Nemours New Hope Oak Grove Pettry Piedmont Pinoak Rock Sandlick Smokeless Spanishburg Speedway Springton Weyanoke Wolfe Yards‡

Ghost town	Widemouth

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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