Buchanan County

Buchanan County is in the coal country of the Appalachian plateau. Its economic activity is driven by the demand for coal and the demand for miners to extract that coal from both underground and strip mines.

Grundy

the Buchanan County courthouse is in Grundy

Links

• Buchanan County
• Appalachian Regional Commission (one of 23 counties and seven independent cities in Virginia that belong to the federal-state partnership)
• Appalachian School of Law
• Buchanan County Public Library
• Buchanan County Historical Society
• Census Bureau Profile - Buchanan County
• Cooperative Living magazine
• Down Home in Grundy
• Economic development partnership: Virginia Coalfield Economic Development Authority
• Grundy Municipal Airport
• Media
• Coalfield.com
• Virginia Mountaineer
• Parks/Forests/Lakes/Refuges
• Breaks Interstate Park
• Planning District Commission: Cumberland Plateau Planning District Commission
• Southwest Virginia Heritage Guide
• Southwest Virginia Graduate Medical Education Consortium - Buchanan County
• Towns:
• Grundy
• VAGenWeb - Buchanan County (genealogy/history)
• Virginia Department of Forestry - Buchanan County
• Virginia Department of Housing and Community Development - Appalachian Regional Commission
• Virginia Economic Development - Buchanan County
• Virginia Employment Commission - Buchanan County
• Virginia Tourism Corporation - Heart of Appalachia

the coal-mining heritage of Buchanan County is memorialized at the courthouse in Grundy