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Glen Jean is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States, near Oak Hill.As of the 2010 census, its population is 210. [2]The area had been known as White Oaks, but when the town was founded in the early 1870s the community was named for Jean McKell, the wife of landowner Thomas G. McKell.
The U.S. state of West Virginia has 55 counties. Fifty of them existed at the time of the Wheeling Convention in 1861, during the American Civil War, when those counties seceded from the Commonwealth of Virginia to form the new state of West Virginia. [1] West Virginia was admitted as a separate state of the United States on June 20, 1863. [2]
Kincaid is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 260. [2] Kincaid is located on West Virginia Route 61,8 miles (13 km) northwest of Oak Hill. Kincaid has a post office with ZIP code 25119. [4] The community was established in 1878. [3]
Location of Mount Hope in Fayette County, West Virginia. Coordinates: 37°53′33″N 81°10′4″W / 37.89250°N 81.16778°W / 37.89250; -81 Country
West Virginia Route 2 is a state highway in the US state of West Virginia.It generally parallels the Ohio River along the western border of the state, from U.S. Route 60 in Huntington (just west of the East End Bridge) northeasterly to U.S. Route 30 in Chester (just south of the Jennings Randolph Memorial Bridge).
Thurmond is a town in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States, on the New River.The population was five at the 2020 census. During the heyday of coal mining in the New River Gorge, Thurmond was a prosperous town with a number of businesses and facilities for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway.
Glen is an unincorporated community in Clay County, West Virginia, United States. Glen is 10 miles (16 km) southwest of Clay . Glen has a post office with ZIP code 25088.
The Summit Bechtel Family National Scout Reserve is in southern West Virginia bordering the New River Gorge National River. Approximately 11,400 acres (46 km 2) of the property are in Fayette County. The remaining roughly 2,600 acres (11 km 2) are in Raleigh County. The property borders the communities of Glen Jean, McCreery, Thurmond, and ...