Kimballton, Virginia

Kimballton, Virginia
Unincorporated community
Kimballton, Virginia
Coordinates: 37°21′58″N 80°40′38″W / 37.36611°N 80.67722°W / 37.36611; -80.67722Coordinates: 37°21′58″N 80°40′38″W / 37.36611°N 80.67722°W / 37.36611; -80.67722
Country	United States
State	Virginia
County	Giles
Elevation	1,686 ft (514 m)
Time zone	Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)
Area code(s)	540
GNIS feature ID	1496965^[1]

Kimballton is an unincorporated community in Giles County, Virginia, United States. Kimballton is located on Stony Creek, 4.2 miles (6.8 km) northeast of Pearisburg. Virginia Tech's Kimballton Underground Research Facility, a low-background physics laboratory, is located in a limestone mine in Kimballton.^[2]

References

↑ "Kimballton". Geographic Names Information System. United States Geological Survey.
↑ "KURF: Kimballton Underground Research Facility". Virginia Tech Department of Physics. Retrieved 2015-08-18.

Municipalities and communities of Giles County, Virginia, United States

County seat: Pearisburg

Towns	Glen Lyn Narrows Pearisburg Pembroke Rich Creek

Unincorporated communities	Eggleston Goldbond Kimballton Midway Newport Ripplemead Staffordsville

Underground physics laboratories (m of water equiv. shielding)

Baksan (↔ 4800) Boulby (↕ 2800) Canfranc (↔ 2500) CJPL (↔ 6720) CUPP (↕⤡ 4000) INO (↔ 4000) Kamioka (↔ 2700) Kimballton (↔ 1450) LNGS (↔ 3400) LSBB (↔ 1500) LSM/Fréjus (↔ 4800) Oto (↔ 1400) SNOLAB (↕ 6000) Soudan (↕ 2100) Stawell (⤡) SURF (↕ 4300) WIPP (↕ 1600) Yangyang (↔ 2100)

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