McCarr
McCarr is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in rural northeastern Pike County, Kentucky, United States, along the Tug Fork River across from Matewan, West Virginia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet with 164 residents
- Description: unincorporated community in Pike County, Kentucky
- Also known as: “McCarr, Kentucky” and “McCarr, KY”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Matewan Historic District and Matewan High School.
Matewan Historic District
Heritage site
Photo: FloNight, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Matewan Historic District encompasses the town center of the rural coal mining community of Matewan, West Virginia. Matewan was the scene of the Battle of Matewan on May 19, 1920, during a coal miners' strike, an event which led to the Battle of Blair Mountain, the largest insurrection ever associated with the labor movement in the United States, and was depicted in the film Matewan.
Matewan High School
School
Magnolia Matewan High School was a public high school located in Matewan, West Virginia. The school has been in a succession of four different buildings since 1914. Matewan High School is situated 2 miles north of McCarr.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Blackberry City and Lynn.
Blackberry City
Hamlet
Blackberry City is an unincorporated community in Mingo County, West Virginia, United States. Blackberry City is located on the Tug Fork and West Virginia Route 49, 0.75 miles south of Matewan.
North Matewan
Hamlet
North Matewan is an unincorporated community in Mingo County, West Virginia, United States. North Matewan is located on West Virginia Route 65, 1 mile east-northeast of Matewan. North Matewan has a post office with ZIP code 25688. North Matewan is situated 1½ miles northeast of McCarr.
McCarr
Latitude
37.61094° or 37° 36′ 39″ northLongitude
-82.16986° or 82° 10′ 12″ westPopulation
164Elevation
692 feet (211 metres)Open location code
869VJR6J+93OpenStreetMap ID
node 154015492OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
4300185Wikidata ID
Q6007943
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Ukrainian—“McCarr” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “McCarr”
- Chechen: “Маккарр”
- Chinese: “麥卡爾”
- French: “McCarr”
- German: “McCarr”
- Gilaki: “مککار (کنتاکي)”
- Gilaki: “مککار”
- Irish: “McCarr”
- Ladin: “McCarr”
- Persian: “مککار، کنتاکی”
- Persian: “مککار”
- Polish: “McCarr”
- Serbian: “Макар”
- Serbo-Croatian: “McCarr, Kentucky”
- Serbo-Croatian: “McCarr”
- South Azerbaijani: “مککار، کنتاکی”
- Spanish: “McCarr”
- Tatar: “Маккарр”
- Ukrainian: “Маккарр”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Buskirk and Matewan.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include McCarr Post Office and Faith Church.
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