Cheat Lake
Cheat Lake is a census-designated place in Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States, surrounding the Cheat Lake reservoir. The population was 9,930 at the 2020 census. It is included in the Morgantown metropolitan area.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 9,930 residents
- Description: census-designated place in Monongalia County, West Virginia
- Also known as: “Cheat Lake, West Virginia” and “Cheat Lake, WV”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Chestnut Ridge Church and Cheat Lake.
Chestnut Ridge Church
Church
Chestnut Ridge Church is a nondenominational, evangelical megachurch in Morgantown, West Virginia. The church spawned two sister churches: South Ridge Church, in Fairmont, West Virginia, and River Ridge in Charleston, West Virginia.
Cheat Lake
Reservoir
Photo: Bitmapped, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Cheat Lake is a 13-mile-long reservoir on the Cheat River in Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States. It was originally named Lake Lynn, but the Board on Geographic Names officially decided upon Cheat Lake as the reservoir's name in 1976.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Sunset Beach and Greystone.
Sunset Beach
Hamlet
Sunset Beach is an unincorporated community in Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States. Sunset Beach is located upon the Cheat Lake.
Greystone
Hamlet
Greystone is an unincorporated community in Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States.
Cheat Neck
Locality
Cheat Neck is an unincorporated community in Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States.
Cheat Lake
- Categories: census-designated place in the United States and locality
- Location: Monongalia County, West Virginia, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.67449° or 39° 40′ 28″ northLongitude
-79.85166° or 79° 51′ 6″ westPopulation
9,930Elevation
997 feet (304 metres)Open location code
87F2M4FX+Q8OpenStreetMap ID
node 158508130OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
4801895Wikidata ID
Q3314928
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Volapük—“Cheat Lake” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “تشيات لاك”
- Catalan: “Cheat Lake”
- Cebuano: “Cheat Lake”
- Chechen: “Чит-Лейк”
- Chinese: “Cheat Lake”
- Dutch: “Cheat Lake”
- French: “Cheat Lake”
- German: “Cheat Lake”
- Gilaki: “چیت لیک (خۊرخۊسي ويرجينيا)”
- Gilaki: “چیت لیک”
- Irish: “Cheat Lake”
- Italian: “Cheat Lake”
- Japanese: “チートレイク”
- Ladin: “Cheat Lake”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Cheat Lake”
- Persian: “چیت لیک، ویرجینیای غربی”
- Persian: “چیت لیک”
- Polish: “Cheat Lake”
- Portuguese: “Cheat Lake”
- Serbian: “Чит Лејк”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Cheat Lake, West Virginia”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Cheat Lake”
- Spanish: “Cheat Lake”
- Tatar: “Чит-Лейк”
- Ukrainian: “Чит-Лейк”
- Volapük: “Cheat Lake, West Virginia”
- Volapük: “Cheat Lake”
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Localities in the Area
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Cheat Lake Farmers Market and Lakeview Golf Resort and Spa Lakeview Course.
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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 “Cheat Lake”. Photo: JaGa, CC BY-SA 4.0.