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==Geography== Keokee is located in the northeast corner of Lee County at {{coord|36|51|24|N|82|54|28|W|type:city}} (36.856575, −82.907861).<ref name="GR1">{{cite web|url=https://www.census.gov/geographies/reference-files/time-series/geo/gazetteer-files.html|publisher=[[United States Census Bureau]]|accessdate=2011-04-23|date=2011-02-12|title=US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990}}</ref> The CDP includes the neighboring unincorporated communities of [[Darnell Town, Virginia|Darnell Town]] and [[Rawhide, Virginia|Rawhide]]. It is bordered to the north by the state of [[Kentucky]]; the state boundary follows the {{convert|3000|ft|m|adj=mid|-high}} crest of Little Black Mountain. According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the CDP has a total area of {{convert|12.5|sqkm|order=flip}}, of which {{convert|12.2|sqkm|order=flip}} are land and {{convert|0.3|sqkm|order=flip|1}}, or 2.07%, are water.<ref name="CenPopGazetteer2020"/> The area drains south toward the North Fork of the [[Powell River (Tennessee River tributary)|Powell River]], part of the [[Tennessee River]] watershed. Keokee is {{convert|15|mi}} by road northeast of [[Pennington Gap, Virginia|Pennington Gap]], the largest town in Lee County, and {{convert|13|mi}} west of [[Big Stone Gap]]. Virginia Secondary Route 624 leads north to the Kentucky border at the top of Little Black Mountain, where it becomes [[Kentucky Route 38]], which leads west down the [[Clover Fork (Cumberland River tributary)|Clover Fork]] of the Cumberland River valley to [[Harlan, Kentucky]], {{convert|31|mi}} from Keokee.
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