Bluefield, West Virginia WV Hotels/Motels/Lodging

This is the current conditions weather report for Bluefield. The report was made 27 minutes ago, at 12:52 UTC. The wind was blowing at a speed of 6 miles per hour / 9.3 kilometers per hour from the westsouthwest (260°). The temperature was 16°F / -9°C, with a dew-point at 16°F / -9°C. The temperature felt like 9°F / -13°C. The atmospheric pressure was 30.21 inHg / 1024 hPa. The relative humidity was 73%. The skies were clear.

Bluefield is a city in Mercer County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 11,451 at the 2000 census. It is also the core city of the Bluefield WV-VA micropolitan area which has a population of 107,578. The micropolitan area is the 350th largest statistical population area and the thirty-third largest micropolitan area in the United States.

The importance of the city was so great that Adolf Hitler even put Bluefield on its reputed list of German air raid targets in the United States. Air raid practice drills were common in the city during this time, as anyone living from those days can clearly recall.

Ironically, the worst thing to happen to Bluefield was the interstate road system, which finally punched through East River Mountain in the 1960s and for the first time allowed automobile traffic to pass through the city without crossing the top of the mountain. The dependence on railroad traffic waned and the city began to shrink in population and eventually lost its Amtrak station in the 1980s. As the importance of the railroad continued to decline, the city shriveled to a much smaller version of its prior glory.

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