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Poor Valley is a valley in Grainger County, Tennessee, Hawkins County, Tennessee, Hancock County, Tennessee, Scott County, Virginia, Washington County, Virginia, and Smyth County, Virginia, United States. A variant name is Big Poor Valley.[1]

Poor Valley was named from the poor soil found there.[2]

References

  1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Poor Valley
  2. ^ Addington, Robert M. (1 January 1992). History of Scott County, Virginia. The Overmountain Press. p. 11. ISBN 978-0-932807-67-0.


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