New Castle

Geography

New Castle is located at (37.500746, -80.110798). According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 0.2 square mile (0.4 km2), all land. Two notable geophysical features of the town are the high cliffs just west of the city (which keeps the New River watershed flowing north away from New Castle) and Johns Creek gorge featuring some challenging whitewater (James River watershed). Due to an old land charter however, paddling Johns Creek was disputed as trespassing by the landowner, recent court rulings have opened the run up once again. The town is just north of the Sinking Creek Valley Cluster, west of the Craig Creek Cluster, and south of the Barbours Creek-Shawvers Run Cluster; areas in the Jefferson National Forest designated by the Wilderness Society as containing "Mountain Treasures".

Race & ethnicity

Most-observed species

• Blue Jay

  Cyanocitta cristata (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  5,378
• Northern Cardinal

  Cardinalis cardinalis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  5,255
• Carolina Wren

  Thryothorus ludovicianus (Latham, 1790) · Aves
  5,170
• American Crow

  Corvus brachyrhynchos C.L.Brehm, 1822 · Aves
  5,035
• Carolina Chickadee

  Poecile carolinensis (Audubon, 1834) · Aves
  4,343
• Tufted Titmouse

  Baeolophus bicolor (Linnaeus, 1766) · Aves
  3,971
• Eastern Bluebird

  Sialia sialis (Linnaeus, 1758) · Aves
  3,924
• American Robin

  Turdus migratorius Linnaeus, 1766 · Aves
  3,909

Largest nearby schools

• CRAIG COUNTY HIGH
  High · New Castle · 265 students · 9.8:1 ratio
• McCleary Elementary
  Elementary · New Castle · 211 students · 11.7:1 ratio

Most recent

• M 2.55 — 2023-06-17
  2 km N of Pembroke, Virginia
• M 2.56 — 2021-09-27
  4 km N of Lafayette, Virginia
• M 2.76 — 2021-07-15
  10 km S of Narrows, Virginia
• M 2.54 — 2019-12-11
  21 km W of New Castle, Virginia
• M 2.61 — 2019-03-04
  13 km E of Meadow Bridge, West Virginia
• M 3.2 — 2017-09-13
  11 km NE of Peterstown, West Virginia