Alka, Virginia

Alice Heights
(Chesterfield County)

Allegany Spring
(Montgomery County)

Summary

Community
Profile

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Current Weather

While our information shows that the community of Alka is historic,^<1> we want to be sure that it has a presence on our website. As we gather information about Alka, we'll be sure to add our findings.

Alka would have been located within present day Dickenson County

While the community is gone, the present day location for Alka is 540 feet [164.59 m] above sea level.^<2>

Time Zone: The area where Alka was located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time.

We searched for American and Canadian communities that also have the name of Alka, but it seems to be unique to this community.

The following is a sample of nearby communities:

Community	Direction	Distance ^<3>	2008 ^<4> Population	Change Since 2000
Elkhorn City (KY)	N	19 mi [30.58 km]	1,002	5.47% decrease
Fleming-Neon (KY)	NW	16 mi [25.75 km]	789	6.07% decrease
Jenkins (KY)	NW	13 mi [20.92 km]	2,244	6.54% decrease
Appalachia	SW	19 mi [30.58 km]	1,739	5.44% decrease
Clintwood	N	8 mi [12.87 km]	1,520	1.87% decrease
Coeburn	S	5 mi [8.05 km]	1,978	0.9% decrease

To learn more about neighboring communities and counties, please visit the Neighborhood Page for Alka.

The Commemorative
Quarter for
Virginia ^<5>

Search for Local Businesses

We have prepared the following searches to help you find businesses, travel and vacation activities. Since Alka no longer exists, the following searches are actually centered on the nearby community of Johnson City (TN). It's likely that the search results won't include all of the businesses that are in this area, but the results should give you a good foundation for further searches.

For what it's worth: In addition to helping you submit your own search, clicking 'Other...' will frequently (but not always) show you some popular searches for this area.

If you find an error or your business wasn't included in the results, please contact Google to help them resolve the issue (we simply link to 'Search-by-Location' and have no control over their results).

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Off-the-Road Links

The following websites contain collections of photos taken around Alka:

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Panoramio.com

Looking for more websites and/or information centered on Alka? Please visit the Map Page for Alka.

Footnotes

<1>	We use the term 'historic' broadly and it generally means that the community no longer exists. However, it can also mean that the community might still exist, but was larger or had a more 'official' existence in the past than it does now. Unfortunately our sources of data have proven to be unreliable and we would like to be accurate. If you can provide us with more specific information about Alka, please let us know so that we can make corrections. - Return to Citation
<2>	The elevation is an estimate for the area around Alka - it wil be higher in some places and lower in others. - Return to Citation
<3>	Our distances are calculated as a straight-line (or point-to-point) distance between Alka and the indicated community. The distance should be treated as an estimate and not as the driving distance. - Return to Citation
<4>	Population counts have been provided by the U.S. Census Bureau. For more detail, please visit our Census Page for Alka. - Return to Citation
<5>	All Quarter-dollar coin images from the United States Mint. - Return to Citation

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