List of towns in West Virginia
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  • Addison (Webster Springs)
    Webster Springs, West Virginia
    Webster Springs is a town in Webster County, West Virginia, United States. Although it was incorporated as Addison in 1892, it is more frequently referred to as Webster Springs, the name of the town's post office. It was named as such for Addison McLaughlin, upon whose land the town was originally...

  • Albright
    Albright, West Virginia
    Albright is a town in Preston County, West Virginia, United States, along the Cheat River. The population was 247 at the 2000 census.-History:Located near Albright is the Virginia Furnace, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1999....

  • Alderson
    Alderson, West Virginia
    Alderson, a town in the US State of West Virginia, is split geographically by the Greenbrier River, with portions in both Greenbrier and Monroe Counties. Although split physically by the river, the town functions as one entity, including that of town government...

  • Anawalt
    Anawalt, West Virginia
    Anawalt is a town in McDowell County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 272 at the 2000 census. Anawalt was incorporated in 1949. It is named in honor of Colonel Anawalt, who was then manager of Union Supply Company, a subsidiary of the United States Steel Company. Coal mining...

  • Anmoore
    Anmoore, West Virginia
    Anmoore is a town in Harrison County, West Virginia, United States. Located at the intersection of WV Rt 58 and Interstate 79. The population was 685 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Anmoore is located at ....

  • Ansted
    Ansted, West Virginia
    Ansted is a town in Fayette County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. It is situated on high bluffs along U.S. Highway 60 on a portion of the Midland Trail a National Scenic Byway near Hawk's Nest overlooking the New River far below....

  • Athens
    Athens, West Virginia
    Athens is a town in Mercer County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 1,102 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Bluefield, WV-VA micropolitan area which has a population of 107,578. It is the home of Concord University.-History:...

  • Auburn
    Auburn, West Virginia
    Auburn is a town in Ritchie County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 103 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Auburn is located at , in the east south-east corner of Ritchie County....


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  • Bancroft
    Bancroft, West Virginia
    Bancroft is a town in Putnam County, West Virginia, along the Kanawha River. The population was 587 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Bancroft is located at ....

  • Barrackville
    Barrackville, West Virginia
    Barrackville is a town in Marion County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 1,288 at the 2000 census. Barrackville was founded in 1767 by William "Indian Billy" Ice and named in honor of an early settler, John Barrack...

  • Bath (Berkeley Springs)
    Bath (Berkeley Springs), West Virginia
    Bath is a town in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, United States. It is the county seat of Morgan County. The town is incorporated as Bath, but it is often referred to by the name of its post office, Berkeley Springs. The population of the town was 663 according to the 2000 United States...

  • Bayard
    Bayard, West Virginia
    Bayard is a town in Grant County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 299 at the 2000 census. Bayard was incorporated in 1893 and named in honor of Thomas F. Bayard, Jr., who later became a United States Senator from Delaware . Bayard was founded on the West Virginia Central and...

  • Belington
    Belington, West Virginia
    Belington is a City in Barbour County, West Virginia, along the Tygart Valley River. The population was 1,788 as of the 2000 census.-Geography:Belington is located at ....

  • Belle
    Belle, West Virginia
    Belle is a town in Kanawha County, West Virginia, along the Kanawha River. The population was 1,259 at the 2000 census. Belle was incorporated on December 13, 1958 by the Kanawha County Circuit Court...

  • Bethany
    Bethany, West Virginia
    Bethany is a town in Brooke County, West Virginia, United States. It is part of the Weirton–Steubenville, WV-OH Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 985 at the 2000 census. The Town of Bethany is home to Bethany College.-History:...

  • Beverly
    Beverly, West Virginia
    Beverly is a small town in Randolph County, West Virginia, USA. It is situated along the Tygart Valley River and had a population of 651 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Beverly is located at ....

  • Blacksville
    Blacksville, West Virginia
    Blacksville is a town in Monongalia County, West Virginia, USA. The population was 175 at the 2000 census. It is included in the Morgantown, West Virginia Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Blacksville is located at ....

  • Bolivar
    Bolivar, West Virginia
    Bolivar is a town in Jefferson County in the U.S. state of West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle. The population was 1,045 at the 2000 census. Originally known as Mudfort, Bolivar was granted a charter as a town by the Virginia General Assembly in December 1825...

  • Bradshaw
    Bradshaw, McDowell County, West Virginia
    Bradshaw is a town in McDowell County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 289 at the 2000 census. Bradshaw was incorporated in December 1979 and is named for a man who settled at the mouth of Bradshaw Creek in about 1840. His gravesite overlooks the town...

  • Bramwell
    Bramwell, West Virginia
    Bramwell is a town in Mercer County, West Virginia, United States, along the Bluestone River. The population was 426 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Bluefield, WV-VA micropolitan area which has a population of 107,578.-Geography:...

  • Brandonville
    Brandonville, West Virginia
    Brandonville is a town in Preston County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 102 at the 2000 census.-History:The Hagans Homestead was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1993.-Geography:...

  • Bruceton Mills
    Bruceton Mills, West Virginia
    Bruceton Mills is a town in Preston County, West Virginia, United States along Big Sandy Creek. The population was 74 at the 2000 census. An early settler, John M. Hoffman, named this community for his stepfather, George Bruce, who claimed direct descendance from Robert the Bruce, King of Scotland....

  • Buffalo
    Buffalo, West Virginia
    Buffalo is a town in Putnam County, West Virginia, along the Kanawha River. The population was 1,236 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Buffalo is located at .According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of...

  • Burnsville
    Burnsville, West Virginia
    Burnsville is a town in Braxton County, West Virginia, United States, at the confluence of the Little Kanawha River and Saltlick Creek. The population was 481 at the 2000 census...


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  • Cairo
    Cairo, West Virginia
    Cairo is a town in Ritchie County, West Virginia, United States, along West Virginia Route 31, the North Fork of the Hughes River, and the North Bend Rail Trail...

  • Camden-on-Gauley
    Camden-on-Gauley, West Virginia
    Camden-on-Gauley is a town in Webster County, West Virginia, United States, along the Gauley River. The population was 157 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Camden-on-Gauley is located at ....

  • Capon Bridge
    Capon Bridge, West Virginia
    Capon Bridge is a town located in eastern Hampshire County, West Virginia along the Northwestern Turnpike , approximately twenty miles west of Winchester, Virginia. As of the 2000 census, the town population was 2,178, 200 of which live within the town limits. Originally known as Glencoe, Capon...

  • Carpendale
    Carpendale, West Virginia
    Carpendale is a town in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States, and part of the 'Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area'. The population was 954 at the 2000 census. Carpendale was incorporated on January 2, 1990 by the Circuit Court. The town is a combination of three subdivisions...

  • Cedar Grove
    Cedar Grove, West Virginia
    Cedar Grove is a town in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 862 at the 2000 census. Cedar Grove was incorporated in 1902. Its name is derived from the fact that at the time the town was established, a large juniper forest, misidentified as cedars by early settlers, was...

  • Chapmanville
    Chapmanville, West Virginia
    Chapmanville is a town in Logan County, West Virginia, in the United States. The population was 1,211 at the 2000 census. Chapmanville was founded in 1800 and named for an early settler named Ned Chapman, who owned a store and ran the post office...

  • Chesapeake
    Chesapeake, West Virginia
    Chesapeake is a town in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 1,643 at the 2000 census. The town is situated on the Kanawha River. Chesapeake was incorporated in 1949 and named for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway, which has served the community since 1873. It is also the...

  • Clay
    Clay, West Virginia
    Clay is a town in and the county seat of Clay County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 593 at the 2000 census. It is the only incorporated town in Clay County.-History:...

  • Clendenin
    Clendenin, West Virginia
    Clendenin is a town in Kanawha County, West Virginia along the Elk River. The population was 1,227 at the 2010 census. Clendenin was incorporated in 1904 and named for the Clendenins, an early pioneer family in the Kanawha River Valley. Charleston, WV retains the namesake of George Clendenin's...

  • Cowen
    Cowen, West Virginia
    Cowen is a town in Webster County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 513 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Cowen is located at ....


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  • Danville
    Danville, West Virginia
    Danville is a town in Boone County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 550 at the 2000 census. Danville was incorporated in 1911 by the Circuit Court and named for Dan Rock, the town's first postmaster...

  • Davis
    Davis, West Virginia
    Davis is a town in Tucker County, West Virginia, along the Blackwater River. The population was 624 at the 2000 census.-History:Davis was named either for Henry Gassaway Davis, or for his family generally....

  • Davy
    Davy, West Virginia
    Davy is a town in McDowell County, West Virginia, USA. The population was 373 at the 2000 census. Davy was incorporated in 1948. It is a mostly residential community in a coal mining district along the main line of the Norfolk Southern Railway.-Geography:...

  • Delbarton
    Delbarton, West Virginia
    Delbarton is a town in Mingo County, West Virginia, USA. The population was 474 at the 2000 census. Delbarton was incorporated September 6, 1946 by the Mingo County Circuit Court. The name Delbarton comes from the New Jersey country estate of one of the officials of the United Thacker Land Company...

  • Durbin
    Durbin, West Virginia
    Durbin is a town in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 262 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Durbin is situated in the northern part of Pocahontas County at the confluence of the East and West Forks of the Greenbrier River. It is thus the starting point of the...

  • Duck, West Virginia
    Duck, West Virginia
    Duck is an unincorporated community in Clay County, West Virginia, United States. Duck is northeast of Clay. Duck has a post office with ZIP code 25063....

  • Donald, West Virginia

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  • East Bank
    East Bank, West Virginia
    East Bank is a town in Kanawha County, West Virginia, along the Kanawha River. The population was 933 at the 2000 census. East Bank was incorporated in 1889 by special charter enacted by the West Virginia Legislature. It is so named because of its location east of Coalburg and the "bank" referring...

  • Eleanor
    Eleanor, West Virginia
    Eleanor is a town in Putnam County, West Virginia, U.S., along the Kanawha River. Its population was 1,518 at the 2010 census. The town was established as a New Deal project in the 1930s and named for Eleanor Roosevelt...

  • Elizabeth
    Elizabeth, West Virginia
    Elizabeth is a town in Wirt County, West Virginia along the Little Kanawha River. The population was 994 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Wirt County. The townsite of Elizabeth was settled by William Beauchamp in 1796, and was known as "Beauchamp's Mills" until 1817, when it was named...

  • Elk Garden
    Elk Garden, West Virginia
    Elk Garden is a town in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States. It is part of the 'Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area'. The population was 217 at the 2000 census. Elk Garden was incorporated in 1890 by the Mineral County Circuit Court...

  • Ellenboro
    Ellenboro, West Virginia
    Ellenboro is a town in Ritchie County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 373 at the 2000 census. The town is located at the junction of U.S. Route 50 and West Virginia Route 16; the North Bend Rail Trail also passes through the town...


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  • Fairview
    Fairview, West Virginia
    Fairview is a town in Marion County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 435 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Fairview is located at ....

  • Falling Spring
    Falling Spring, West Virginia
    Falling Spring is a town in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 209 at the 2000 census.The post office that serves the community is called Renick, rather than Falling Spring; its ZIP Code is 24966....

  • Farmington
    Farmington, West Virginia
    Farmington is a town in Marion County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 387 at the 2000 census. It is best known for being the site of the 1968 Farmington Mine disaster.-Geography:...

  • Fayetteville
    Fayetteville, West Virginia
    Fayetteville is a town in and the county seat of Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 2,754 at the 2000 census.Fayetteville was listed as one of the 2006 "Top 10 Coolest Small Towns in America" by Budget Travel Magazine ....

  • Flatwoods
    Flatwoods, West Virginia
    Flatwoods is a town in Braxton County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 348 at the 2000 census. It is found at exit 67 on Interstate 79. The area immediately around the exit has in recent years been commercialized to the point where it now has an outlet mall, a hotel, several gas...

  • Flemington
    Flemington, West Virginia
    Flemington is a town in Taylor County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 287 at the 2000 census. Flemington was incorporated in 1922 by Circuit Court, and named for James Fleming, an early settler in the area originally from Hampshire County....

  • Fort Gay
    Fort Gay, West Virginia
    Fort Gay is a town in Wayne County, West Virginia, along the Tug Fork and Big Sandy Rivers. The town adjoins Louisa, Kentucky. The population was 819 at the 2000 census. The estimate as of 2009 was 801....

  • Franklin
    Franklin, West Virginia
    Franklin is a town in Pendleton County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 797 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Pendleton County...

  • Friendly
    Friendly, West Virginia
    Friendly is a town in Tyler County, West Virginia, in the United States. The population was 159 at the 2000 census. The town was likely named for Friend Cochrane Williamson, the grandson of Thomas Williamson, an early settler on the townsite...


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  • Gassaway
    Gassaway, West Virginia
    Gassaway is a town in Braxton County, West Virginia, in the United States. The population was 901 at the 2000 census. Gassaway was incorporated in 1905 and named for Henry Gassaway Davis...

  • Gauley Bridge
    Gauley Bridge, West Virginia
    Gauley Bridge is a town in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 738 at the 2000 census. The Kanawha River is formed at Gauley Bridge by the confluence of the New and Gauley Rivers...

  • Gerrardstown
    Gerrardstown, West Virginia
    Gerrardstown is an unincorporated village located along West Virginia Route 51 in Berkeley County in the U.S. state of West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle. It was laid out in 1784 by David Gerrard and served as the site of the first Baptist church west of the Blue Ridge Mountains...

  • Gilbert
    Gilbert, West Virginia
    Gilbert is a town in Mingo County, West Virginia, United States, along the Guyandotte River. The population was 417 at the 2000 census. Gilbert was incorporated in 1918 and named for Gilbert Creek, which derives its name from the name of an early traveler in the area who was killed by Native...

  • Glasgow
    Glasgow, West Virginia
    Glasgow is a town in Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA, along the Kanawha River. The population was 783 at the 2000 census. Glasgow was incorporated on June 20, 1920...

  • Glenville
    Glenville, West Virginia
    Glenville is a town in and the county seat of Gilmer County, West Virginia, United States, along the Little Kanawha River. The population was 1,544 at the 2000 census. It is the home of Glenville State College.-History:...

  • Grant Town
    Grant Town, West Virginia
    Grant Town is a town in Marion County, West Virginia, in the eastern United States. The population was 657 at the 2000 census.The town was formed in 1901 with the opening of the Federal Coal and Coke Company bituminous coal mine, and was named for Robert Grant, vice president of the coal company. ...

  • Grantsville
    Grantsville, West Virginia
    Grantsville is a town in Calhoun County, West Virginia, in the United States. The population was 565 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Calhoun County. The town was established along the Little Kanawha River in 1865 and named for Ulysses S. Grant...

  • Granville
    Granville, West Virginia
    Granville is a town in Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 778 at the 2000 census. It is included in the Morgantown, West Virginia Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:Granville is located at ....


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  • Hambleton
    Hambleton, West Virginia
    Hambleton is a town in Tucker County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 246 at the 2000 census. Hambleton was established in 1889, but not incorporated until 1905. It was named by then United States Senator Stephen B. Elkins in honor of a stockholder by this name in the West Virginia...

  • Hamlin
    Hamlin, West Virginia
    Hamlin, originally named "Hamline," is a town in Lincoln County, West Virginia, United States, along the Mud River. The population was recorded as 1,119 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Lincoln County.-History:...

  • Handley
    Handley, West Virginia
    Handley is a town in Kanawha County, West Virginia, USA. The population was 341 as of 2007. Handley was first established in 1877 and known as Upper Creek until July 29, 1881, when its name was changed to Handley for pioneer settlers who farmed the area. Handley has the distinction of bearing a...

  • Harman
    Harman, West Virginia
    Harman is a small town in Randolph County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 126 at the 2000 census.-History:The Day-Vandevander Mill was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1987.-Geography:...

  • Harpers Ferry
    Harpers Ferry, West Virginia
    Harpers Ferry is a historic town in Jefferson County, West Virginia, United States. In many books the town is called "Harper's Ferry" with an apostrophe....

  • Harrisville
    Harrisville, West Virginia
    Harrisville is a town in Ritchie County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 1,842 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Ritchie County...

  • Hartford City
    Hartford City, West Virginia
    Hartford City, also known as Hartford, is a town in Mason County, West Virginia, in the United States. The population was 519 at the 2000 census...

  • Hedgesville
    Hedgesville, West Virginia
    Hedgesville is a town in Berkeley County in the U.S. state of West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle. The population was 240 at the 2000 census. The Town of Hedgesville was laid out in 1832 along the old Warm Springs Road and named for the prominent local Hedges family...

  • Henderson
    Henderson, West Virginia
    Henderson is a town in Mason County, West Virginia, United States, at the confluence of the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers. The population was 325 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Point Pleasant, WV–OH Micropolitan Statistical Area...

  • Hendricks
    Hendricks, West Virginia
    Hendricks is a town in Tucker County, West Virginia, USA. The population was 319 at the 2000 census. The Blackwater River and the Dry Fork join at Hendricks to form the Black Fork, a principal tributary of the Cheat River.-History:...

  • Hillsboro
    Hillsboro, West Virginia
    Hillsboro is a town in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 243 at the 2000 census.- History :Hillsboro was named for pioneer John Hill, from North Carolina, who built a log cabin near what is now Lobelia...

  • Hundred
    Hundred, West Virginia
    Hundred is a town in Wetzel County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 344 at the 2000 census. It was named for Henry Church and his wife, the first settlers who lived to be 109 and 106. Hundred is the only place in the United States with this name.Hundred is so named because Henry...

  • Huttonsville
    Huttonsville, West Virginia
    Huttonsville is a town in Randolph County, West Virginia, United States, along the Tygart Valley River. The population was 217 at the 2000 census.-History:...


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  • Kenova
    Kenova, West Virginia
    Kenova is a city in Wayne County, West Virginia, at the confluence of the Ohio and Big Sandy Rivers. The name of the town comes from its unique position where the borders of Kentucky, Ohio, and Virginia meet. Founded in 1859 but not incorporated until 1894, the town's early history and...

  • Kermit
    Kermit, West Virginia
    Kermit is a town in Mingo County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 209 at the 2000 census. Kermit is located along the Tug Fork, opposite Warfield, Kentucky...

  • Kimball
    Kimball, West Virginia
    Kimball is a town in McDowell County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 411 at the 2000 census.Kimball was incorporated in 1911 and named for Frederick J. Kimball, who was a president of the Norfolk and Western Railway...


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  • Leon
    Leon, West Virginia
    Leon is a town in Mason County, West Virginia, United States, along the Kanawha River. The population was 132 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Point Pleasant, WV–OH Micropolitan Statistical Area.-History:The Gen...

  • Lester
    Lester, West Virginia
    Lester is a town in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 322 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Lester is located at ....

  • Lexie
  • Lost Creek
    Lost Creek, West Virginia
    Lost Creek is a town in Harrison County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 467 at the 2000 census.-History:The Daniel Bassel House and Lost Creek Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Depot are listed on the National Register of Historic Places....

  • Lumberport
    Lumberport, West Virginia
    Lumberport is a town in Harrison County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 937 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Lumberport is located at , at the confluence of Tenmile Creek and the West Fork River....


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  • Mabscott
    Mabscott, West Virginia
    Mabscott is a town in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 1,403 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Mabscott is located at ....

  • Man
    Man, West Virginia
    Man is a town in Logan County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 770 at the 2000 census. The town is located along the Guyandotte River at the mouth of Buffalo Creek, which was the site of the 1972 Buffalo Creek Flood following a dam collapse...

  • Marlinton
    Marlinton, West Virginia
    Marlinton is a town in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 1,204 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Pocahontas County.-History:...

  • Mason
    Mason, West Virginia
    Mason, also known as Mason City is a town in Mason County, West Virginia, in the United States. The population was 1,064 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Point Pleasant, WV–OH Micropolitan Statistical Area....

  • Masontown
    Masontown, West Virginia
    Masontown is a town in Preston County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 647 at the 2000 census.-History:Located near Masontown is the Ralphsynder Decagonal Barn, listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1985.-Geography:...

  • Matewan
    Matewan, West Virginia
    Matewan is a town in Mingo County, West Virginia, USA at the confluence of the Tug Fork River and Mate Creek. The population was 498 at the 2000 census...

  • Matoaka
    Matoaka, West Virginia
    Matoaka is a small town in Mercer County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 317 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Bluefield, WV-VA micropolitan area which has a population of 107,578...

  • Meadow Bridge
    Meadow Bridge, West Virginia
    Meadow Bridge is a town in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 321 at the 2000 census. Historically, the town was also known as Beelick Knob, a coal mining operation.-Geography:...

  • Middlebourne
    Middlebourne, West Virginia
    Middlebourne is a town in Tyler County, West Virginia, USA. The population was 870 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat and was established by an enactment of the Virginia General Assembly in 1813...

  • Mill Creek
    Mill Creek, West Virginia
    Mill Creek is a town in Randolph County, West Virginia, United States, along the Tygart Valley River. The population was 662 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Mill Creek is located at ....

  • Milton
    Milton, West Virginia
    Milton is a town in Cabell County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 2,206 at the 2000 census.Milton is a part of the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH Metropolitan Statistical Area . As of the 2000 census, the MSA had a population of 288,649...

  • Mitchell Heights
    Mitchell Heights, West Virginia
    Mitchell Heights is a town in Logan County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 301 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Mitchell Heights is located at ....

  • Monongah
    Monongah, West Virginia
    Monongah is a town in Marion County, West Virginia along the West Fork River. The population was 939 at the 2000 census. Monongah was incorporated in 1891 by Circuit Court...

  • Montrose
    Montrose, West Virginia
    Montrose is a town in Randolph County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 156 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Montrose is located at , along Leading Creek....

  • Moorefield
    Moorefield, West Virginia
    Moorefield is a town in Hardy County, West Virginia, USA. Moorefield is the county seat of Hardy County. It was originally chartered in 1777 and named for Conrad Moore, who owned the land upon which the town was laid out...


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  • New Haven
    New Haven, West Virginia
    New Haven is a town in Mason County, West Virginia, United States, along the Ohio River. The population was 1,559 at the 2000 census. It is part of the Point Pleasant, WV–OH Micropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...

  • Newburg
    Newburg, West Virginia
    Newburg is a town in Preston County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 360 at the 2000 census. At one time, Newburg was the largest town in Preston County.-Geography:Newburg is located at ....

  • Nitro
    Nitro, West Virginia
    Nitro is a city in West Virginia, along the Kanawha River. Most of the city lies in Kanawha County, with the remainder in Putnam County. The population was 7,178 at the 2010 census.Nitro was incorporated in 1932 by Circuit Court.- City name origin :...

  • North Hills
    North Hills, West Virginia
    North Hills is a town in Wood County, West Virginia, United States. It is a suburb of Parkersburg. The population was 880 at the 2000 census. North Hills was incorporated on February 15, 1979.Chance Murdock grew up here from 1981-1987.-Geography:...

  • Northfork
    Northfork, West Virginia
    Northfork is a town in McDowell County, West Virginia, USA, located on US Route 52 between Welch and Bluefield.The population was 519 at the 2000 census. Northfork was incorporated in 1901, so named because of its location on the north fork of the Elkhorn Creek at its junction with the south fork...

  • Nutter Fort
    Nutter Fort, West Virginia
    Nutter Fort is a town in Harrison County, West Virginia, United States, incorporated in 1923. The town is a southeastern suburb of Clarksburg, West Virginia. Since 1996, Nutter Fort has held the West Virginia Blackberry Festival during the first weekend of August. The population was 1,686 at the...


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  • Paw Paw
    Paw Paw, West Virginia
    Paw Paw is a town in Morgan County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 524 at the 2000 census. The town is known for the nearby Paw Paw Tunnel. Paw Paw was incorporated by the Circuit Court of Morgan County on April 8, 1891 and named for the pawpaw, a wild fruit which formerly grew in...

  • Pax
    Pax, West Virginia
    Pax is a town in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 174 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Pax is located at ....

  • Peterstown
    Peterstown, West Virginia
    Peterstown is a town in Monroe County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 499 at the 2000 census.The town is the site of the 1928 discovery of the 34.48 carat Jones Diamond by Grover C...

  • Piedmont
    Piedmont, West Virginia
    Piedmont is a town in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States. It is part of the 'Cumberland, MD-WV Metropolitan Statistical Area'. The population was 1,014 at the 2000 census. Piedmont was chartered in 1856...

  • Pine Grove
    Pine Grove, Wetzel County, West Virginia
    Pine Grove is a town in Wetzel County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 571 at the 2000 census. It was so named because it was settled in a large pine thicket....

  • Pineville
    Pineville, West Virginia
    Pineville is a town in Wyoming County, West Virginia, along the Guyandotte River. The population was 715 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Wyoming County.-History:Pineville was settled by William Short in 1853....

  • Poca
    Poca, West Virginia
    Poca is a town in Putnam County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 974 at the 2010 census.-Geography:Poca is located at . It is sited at the confluence of the Kanawha River and the Pocatalico River....

  • Pratt
    Pratt, West Virginia
    Pratt is a town in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States, along the Kanawha River. The population was 551 at the 2000 census.-History:The Pratt Historic District is listed on the National Register of Historic Places.-Geography:...

  • Pullman
    Pullman, West Virginia
    Pullman is a town in Ritchie County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 169 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Pullman is located at ....


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  • Rainelle
    Rainelle, West Virginia
    Rainelle is a town in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 1,545 at the 2000 census.-History:Rainelle was named for the Raine family. Thomas and his brother John Raine moved there from Pennsylvania in 1906 to exploit one of the last large stands of virgin hardwoods in...

  • Reedsville
    Reedsville, West Virginia
    Reedsville is a town in Preston County, West Virginia, in the United States. The population was 517 at the 2000 census.Reedsville was named for James Reed, who moved to the area in 1827 and owned land covering most of the future townsite. The first house in the community was built in 1855, and the...

  • Reedy
    Reedy, West Virginia
    See also Reedy .Reedy is a town in Roane County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 198 at the 2000 census.-Geography:...

  • Rhodell
    Rhodell, West Virginia
    Rhodell incorporated in 1937, is a town in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 234 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Rhodell is located at ....

  • Ridgeley
    Ridgeley, West Virginia
    Ridgeley is a town in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States, and part of the Cumberland Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 762 at the 2000 census but has fallen to 575 with the 2010 census....

  • Rivesville
    Rivesville, West Virginia
    Rivesville is a town in Marion County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 913 as of the 2000 census.-Geography:Rivesville is located at in the heart of the Fairmont coal field on the north-west bank of the Monongahela River around its confluence with Paw Paw Creek.According to the...

  • Rowlesburg
    Rowlesburg, West Virginia
    Rowlesburg is a town in Preston County, West Virginia, United States, along the Cheat River. The population was 613 at the 2000 census.-History:The Downtown Rowlesburg Historic District was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2005....

  • Rupert
    Rupert, West Virginia
    Rupert is a town in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 940 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Rupert is located at ....

  • Richwood, West Virginia
    Richwood, West Virginia
    Richwood is a city in Nicholas County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 2,477 at the 2000 census. A former coal and lumber boom town, the city's population once flirted with 10,000 but the closure of many underground coal mines caused many of Richwood's residents to leave the state...


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  • Sand Fork
    Sand Fork, West Virginia
    Sand Fork is a town in Gilmer County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 176 at the 2000 census. It is located along the Little Kanawha River, at the mouth of the Sand Fork....

  • Shepherdstown
    Shepherdstown, West Virginia
    Shepherdstown is a town in Jefferson County, West Virginia, United States, located along the Potomac River. It is the oldest town in the state, having been chartered in 1762 by Colonial Virginia's General Assembly. Since 1863, Shepherdstown has been in West Virginia, and is the oldest town in...

  • Smithfield
    Smithfield, West Virginia
    Smithfield is a town in Wetzel County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 177 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Smithfield is located at ....

  • Sophia
    Sophia, West Virginia
    Sophia is an incorporated town in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States. It was incorporated in 1912. The population was 1,301 at the 2000 census. Sophia was the hometown of the late U.S. Senator Robert C. Byrd....

  • Star City
    Star City, West Virginia
    Star City is a small town in Monongalia County, West Virginia, in the United States. The population was 1,366 at the 2000 census. It is included in the Morgantown, West Virginia Metropolitan Statistical Area.-Geography:...

  • St. Albans
    St. Albans, West Virginia
    St. Albans is a city in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States, at the confluence of the Kanawha and Coal Rivers. The population was 11,044 at the 2010 census.St. Albans was laid out in 1816...

  • Summersville
    Summersville, West Virginia
    Summersville is a town in Nicholas County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 3,194 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Nicholas County.-Geography:...

  • Sutton
    Sutton, West Virginia
    Sutton is a town in Braxton County, West Virginia, in the United States. The population was 1,011 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Braxton County. Sutton is situated at a center of transportation in West Virginia. Interstate 79, a major north-south route, connects with Appalachian...

  • Sylvester
    Sylvester, West Virginia
    Sylvester is a town in Boone County, West Virginia, United States, along the Big Coal River. The population was 195 at the 2000 census. Sylvester was incorporated on April 11, 1952 by the Boone County Circuit Court.-Geography:...


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  • Terra Alta
    Terra Alta, West Virginia
    Terra Alta is a town in Preston County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 1,456 at the 2000 census.-History:The James S. Lakin House and Terra Alta Bank are listed on the National Register of Historic Places.-Geography:...

  • Thurmond
    Thurmond, West Virginia
    Thurmond was incorporated in 1900 and was most likely named for Captain W. D. Thurmond, who settled here in 1844. He served in the Confederate Army and died in 1910 at age 90. Thurmond post office was established in 1888 and discontinued in 1995...

  • Triadelphia
    Triadelphia, West Virginia
    Triadelphia is a town in Ohio County, West Virginia, United States. It is part of the Wheeling, West Virginia Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 817 at the 2000 census.Triadelphia was originally chartered in 1829...

  • Tunnelton
    Tunnelton, West Virginia
    Tunnelton is a town in Preston County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 336 at the 2000 census.-History:The Tunnelton Railroad Depot was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1996.-Geography:...


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  • Wardensville
    Wardensville, West Virginia
    Wardensville is a town in Hardy County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 246 at the 2000 census. Originally named Trout Run, Wardensville was chartered in Virginia in 1832 and incorporated in West Virginia in 1879. It is named for the town's first merchant. It is home to Trout...

  • Wayne
    Wayne, West Virginia
    Wayne is a town in Wayne County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 1,105 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Wayne County. Wayne is a part of the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH, Metropolitan Statistical Area...

  • West Hamlin
    West Hamlin, West Virginia
    West Hamlin is a town in Lincoln County, West Virginia, United States, along the Guyandotte River. The population was 696 at the 2000 census.-Geography:West Hamlin is located at ....

  • West Liberty
    West Liberty, West Virginia
    West Liberty is a town in Ohio County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 1,220 at the 2000 census. It is the home of West Liberty University...

  • West Logan
    West Logan, West Virginia
    West Logan is a town in Logan County, West Virginia, United States, along the Guyandotte River. The population was 418 at the 2000 census.-Geography:West Logan is located at ....

  • West Milford
    West Milford, West Virginia
    West Milford is a town in Harrison County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 651 at the 2000 census.-Geography:West Milford is located at , along the West Fork River....

  • West Union
    West Union, West Virginia
    West Union, incorporated July 20, 1881, is a town in Doddridge County, West Virginia. The population was 806 at the 2000 census. It is the county seat of Doddridge County. The mayor is Robert Fetty as of 2011. The town is located along Middle Island Creek at the junction of U.S...

  • Whitehall
    Whitehall, West Virginia
    White Hall is a town in Marion County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 595 at the 2000 census. White Hall became incorporated in 1989. It was formed from many different unincorporated areas joining together to form a town. Many area, though, chose not to join White Hall...

  • Whitesville
    Whitesville, West Virginia
    Whitesville is a town in Boone County, West Virginia, United States, along the Big Coal River. The population was 520 at the 2000 census. Whitesville was incorporated on August 15, 1935 by the Boone County Circuit Court. It is named for B. W. White, a prominent early settler in the area...

  • Winfield
    Winfield, West Virginia
    Winfield is a town in Putnam County, West Virginia, along the Kanawha River. The population was 2,301 at the 2010 census. It is the county seat of Putnam County....

  • Womelsdorf (Coalton)
    Womelsdorf (Coalton), West Virginia
    Womelsdorf is a town in Randolph County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 247 at the 2000 census.-Geography:Womelsdorf is located at ....

  • Worthington
    Worthington, West Virginia
    Worthington is a town in Marion County, West Virginia, in the United States. The population was 170 at the 2000 census. Worthington was incorporated in 1893 and named for Colonel George Worthington, an early settler.-Geography:...


Former towns

These communities were once towns but disincorporated.
  • Dunlow
    Dunlow, West Virginia
    Dunlow is an unincorporated community in southern Wayne County, West Virginia, on Twelvepole Creek. It was laid out as a railroad town along the Ohio Extension of the Norfolk and Western Railway in 1892. Dunlow was incorporated in 1892...

  • East Lynn
    East Lynn, West Virginia
    East Lynn is an unincorporated community located in Wayne County, West Virginia on the banks of Twelvepole Creek about eight miles south of the county seat, Wayne.-History:...

  • Jefferson, West Virginia
    Jefferson, West Virginia
    Jefferson is an unincorporated census-designated place in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States, along the Kanawha River. The population was 676 at the 2010 census...

  • Littleton, West Virginia
    Littleton, West Virginia
    Littleton is an unincorporated census-designated place in Wetzel County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 198 at the 2010 census...


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