Ansted
Ansted is a town in Fayette County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The population was 1,303 at the 2020 census. It is situated on high bluffs along U.S. Route 60 on a portion of the Midland Trail near Hawks Nest overlooking the New River far below.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,590 residents
- Description: town in Fayette County, West Virginia
- Also known as: “Ansted, West Virginia”, “Ansted, WV”, “New Haven”, and “Woodville”
- Postal code: 25812
Places of Interest
Highlights include Hawks Nest State Park and Mystery Hole.
Hawks Nest State Park
Park
Photo: NKS22, Public domain.
Hawks Nest State Park is located on 370 acres in Fayette County near Ansted, West Virginia. The park's clifftop overlook along U.S. Route 60 provides a scenic vista of the New River, some 750 feet below. Hawks Nest State Park is situated 1½ miles southwest of Ansted.
Mystery Hole
Mystery Hole is located in Ansted, West Virginia, near Hawks Nest State Park and Cathedral Falls in West Virginia. Mystery Hole was founded by Donald Wilson in 1973. Mystery Hole is situated 2½ miles west of Ansted.Places in the Area
Nearby places include Victor and Gaymont.
Victor
Hamlet
Victor is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. Victor is located on U.S. Route 60, 1 mile east of Ansted. Victor has a post office with ZIP code 25938.
Gaymont
Hamlet
Gaymont or Camont is an unincorporated community and coal town in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States.
Hopewell
Hamlet
Hopewell is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. It lies at an elevation of 1480 feet. Hopewell is situated 1½ miles southeast of Ansted.
Ansted
- Categories: town in the United States and locality
- Location: Fayette, West Virginia, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.13641° or 38° 8′ 11″ northLongitude
-81.09943° or 81° 5′ 58″ westPopulation
1,590Elevation
1,319 feet (402 metres)Open location code
86CW4WP2+H6OpenStreetMap ID
node 153831929OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
4797301Wikidata ID
Q2246298
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Ansted” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “أنستيد”
- Basque: “Ansted”
- Bulgarian: “Анстед”
- Catalan: “Ansted”
- Cebuano: “Ansted”
- Chechen: “Анстед”
- Chinese: “Ansted”
- Dutch: “Ansted”
- Egyptian Arabic: “انستيد”
- French: “Ansted”
- German: “Ansted”
- Gilaki: “انستد (خۊرخۊسي ويرجينيا)”
- Gilaki: “انستد”
- Hungarian: “Ansted”
- Italian: “Ansted”
- Ladin: “Ansted”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Ansted”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Ansted”
- Norwegian: “Ansted”
- Persian: “انستد”
- Polish: “Ansted”
- Portuguese: “Ansted”
- Russian: “Анстед”
- Serbian: “Ansted, West Virginia”
- Serbian: “Ansted”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ansted, West Virginia”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Ansted”
- South Azerbaijani: “آنزتد، باتی ویرجینیا”
- Spanish: “Ansted”
- Tatar: “Анстед”
- Ukrainian: “Анстед”
- Volapük: “Ansted”
- Welsh: “Ansted, Gorllewin Virginia”
- Welsh: “Ansted”
Localities in the Area
Explore places such as Hawks Nest and MacDougal.
Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Ansted and Ansted Baptist Church.
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Ansted”. Photo: KLOTZ, CC BY-SA 3.0.