Fayetteville
Fayetteville is a town of 2,754 people in West Virginia, often called "Gateway to the New River Gorge"; it borders the northern end of New River Gorge National Park and Preserve.- Type: Town with 2,890 residents
- Description: town in and the county seat of Fayette County, West Virginia
- Also known as: “Fayetteville, West Virginia”, “Fayetteville, WV”, and “Vandalia”
- Postal code: 25840
Places of Interest
Highlights include Fayette County Courthouse and New River Gorge Bridge.
Fayette County Courthouse
Courthouse
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Fayette County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at Fayetteville, Fayette County, West Virginia. It was built in 1894–1895, and is a 2 1/2 story, five bay wide, rectangular building with projecting wings.
New River Gorge Bridge
Bridge
Photo: JaGa, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The New River Gorge Bridge is a steel arch bridge 3,030 feet long over the New River Gorge near Fayetteville, West Virginia, in the Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States.
Tunney Hunsaker Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Chris Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Tunney Hunsaker Bridge is an historic truss bridge over the New River in New River Gorge, West Virginia. The bridge is named after Tunney Hunsaker, American boxer and former chief-of-police at Fayetteville, West Virginia.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fayette and Garten.
Fayette
Hamlet
Fayette is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. Its elevation is 919 feet.
Garten
Hamlet
Garten is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 204.
Oak Ridge
Hamlet
Oak Ridge is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States.
Fayetteville
- Categories: town in the United States, county seat, and locality
- Location: Fayette, New River and Greenbrier Valleys, West Virginia, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.0531° or 38° 3′ 11″ northLongitude
-81.104° or 81° 6′ 14″ westPopulation
2,890Elevation
1,818 feet (554 metres)United Nations Location Code
US YTTOpen location code
86CW3V3W+7COpenStreetMap ID
node 154050828OpenStreetMap feature
place=town
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Fayetteville” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “فايتفيل”
- Azerbaijani: “Feyetvill”
- Basque: “Fayetteville”
- Catalan: “Fayetteville”
- Cebuano: “Fayetteville”
- Chechen: “Фаэттвилл”
- Chinese: “Fayetteville”
- Dutch: “Fayetteville”
- French: “Fayetteville”
- German: “Fayetteville”
- Gilaki: “فایتویل (خۊرخۊسي ويرجينيا)”
- Gilaki: “فایتویل”
- Hungarian: “Fayetteville”
- Irish: “Fayetteville”
- Italian: “Fayetteville”
- Japanese: “ファイエットヴィル”
- Ladin: “Fayetteville”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Fayetteville”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Fayetteville”
- Norwegian: “Fayetteville”
- Persian: “فییتویل، ویرجینیای غربی”
- Persian: “فییتویل”
- Polish: “Fayetteville”
- Portuguese: “Fayetteville”
- Russian: “Фейетвилл”
- Serbian: “Фејетвил”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fayetteville, West Virginia”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Fayetteville”
- Slovenian: “Fayetteville”
- Spanish: “Fayetteville (Virginia Occidental)”
- Spanish: “Fayetteville”
- Swedish: “Fayetteville, West Virginia”
- Swedish: “Fayetteville”
- Tatar: “Фаэттвилл”
- Ukrainian: “Фаєттвілл”
- Urdu: “فائیٹ ویل، مغربی ورجینیا”
- Volapük: “Fayetteville”
- Welsh: “Fayetteville, Gorllewin Virginia”
- Welsh: “Fayetteville”
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