CHANGE: Virginia Town’s Airport Is Collateral Damage in Obama’s ‘War on Coal.’ “The population of Grundy, Virginia, is 1,105. It is the county seat of Buchanan County, population 23,581, where the median household income is $29,183, far below the U.S. median average of $51,914. This community, about 10 miles from the Kentucky border and 15 miles from the West Virginia state line, is quite obviously in need of economic growth – so why is the Obama administration standing in the way?”