Jump to content
Main menu
Main menu
move to sidebar
hide
Navigation
Main page
Recent changes
Random page
Help about MediaWiki
Special pages
Niidae Wiki
Search
Search
Appearance
Create account
Log in
Personal tools
Create account
Log in
Pages for logged out editors
learn more
Contributions
Talk
Editing
Glasgow, Virginia
(section)
Page
Discussion
English
Read
Edit
View history
Tools
Tools
move to sidebar
hide
Actions
Read
Edit
View history
General
What links here
Related changes
Page information
Appearance
move to sidebar
hide
Warning:
You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you
log in
or
create an account
, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.
Anti-spam check. Do
not
fill this in!
==Geography== Glasgow is located at {{coord|37.633093|-79.451542|type:city_region:US|format=dms|display=inline}} (37.633093, -79.451542).<ref name="GR1">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|access-date=2011-04-23|date=2011-02-12|title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990}}</ref> Glasgow is about 6 miles east of the community of [[Natural Bridge, Virginia|Natural Bridge]], the site of the [[Natural Bridge (Virginia)|historic land bridge of the same name]]. According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the town has a total area of 1.5 square miles (4.0 km<sup>2</sup>), all of it land. ===Climate=== The climate in this area is characterized by hot, humid summers and generally mild to cool winters. According to the [[Köppen Climate Classification]] system, Glasgow has a [[humid subtropical climate]], abbreviated "Cfa" on climate maps.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.weatherbase.com/weather/weather-summary.php3?s=573344&cityname=Glasgow,+Virginia,+United+States+of+America&units=|title=Glasgow, Virginia Köppen Climate Classification (Weatherbase)|website=Weatherbase|access-date=19 April 2018}}</ref> On July 15, 1954, Balcony Falls recorded a maximum temperature of {{convert|110|°F|0}}, which is the highest temperature ever recorded in the state of [[Virginia]].<ref name = SCEC>{{cite web |url = https://www.ncei.noaa.gov/access/monitoring/scec/records/all/tmax |title = State Climate Extremes Committee }}</ref>
Summary:
Please note that all contributions to Niidae Wiki may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see
Encyclopedia:Copyrights
for details).
Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!
Cancel
Editing help
(opens in new window)
Search
Search
Editing
Glasgow, Virginia
(section)
Add topic