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Galax
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independent city in Virginia, United States
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- Virginia
- County
- None ( Independent city )
- Type
- Council-Manager
- Mayor
- Willie Greene
- City manager
- Michael Burnette
- Total
- 8.28 sq mi (21.44 km )
- Land
- 8.24 sq mi (21.33 km )
- Water
- 0.042 sq mi (0.11 km )
- Elevation
- 2,372 ft (723 m)
- Estimate 2025
- 6,670
- Density
- 816/sq mi (315/km )
- Time zone
- UTC−5 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC−4 (EDT)
- Fips code
- 51-30208
- Website
- www .galaxva .com
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- independent city in the United States
- Named after
- Galax urceolata
- Official name
- Galax
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Virginia
- Population
- 6720
- Area
- 21.44421
- Elevation
- 723
- Shares border with
- Carroll County
- Official website
- www.galaxva.com
- Image
- Main St Galax Va.JPG
- Households
- 2614
- Dialing code
- 276
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- topic's main category
- Category:Galax, Virginia
- Commons category
- Galax, Virginia
- postal code
- 24333
- inception
- 1906-01-01
- native label
- Galax
- water as percent of area
- 0.484
- per capita income
- 24521
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Encyclopedic overview
Galax /ˈɡeɪlæks/ is an independent city in the southwestern part of the Commonwealth of Virginia, in the United States. As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,720.
The Bureau of Economic Analysis combines the city of Galax with neighboring Carroll County for statistical purposes. Galax is bounded to the northeast by Carroll County and to the southwest by Grayson County.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Galax” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.