Glenville

Glenville is a town of about 1,100 people and the county seat of Gilmer County, on the Little Kanawha River. It is home to Glenville State University, Cedar Creek State Park and several industrial companies, as well as a federal prison.
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  • Type: Town with 1,480 residents
  • Description: town in and the county seat of Gilmer County, West Virginia, United States
  • Also known as: “Glenville, West Virginia”, “Glenville, WV”, “Hartford”, “Stewarts Creek”, and “The Ford”
  • Postal code: 26351

Places of Interest

Highlights include Little Kanawha Valley Bank and Gilmer County Poor Farm Infirmary.

Historic building
Photo: ATothS, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a historic bank building located at Glenville, . It was built in 1901 and is a small one-story commercial building with Classical Revival-style details.

Historic building
Photo: ATothS, CC BY-SA 3.0.
is a historic poor farm building located near Glenville, . It was built in 1907 by what is now the Glenville Golf Club, and is a two-story, three-bay, center entrance frame building with a cross-hip pitched roof and Colonial Revival-style details.

Retail building
Photo: ATothS, CC BY-SA 3.0.
, also known as the Country Store Museum, is a historic general store building located at Glenville, .

Glenville

Latitude
38.9343° or 38° 56′ 3″ north
Longitude
-80.8376° or 80° 50′ 15″ west
Population
1,480
Elevation
725 feet (221 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US GZ2
Open location code
86CXW5M6+PX
Open­Street­Map ID
node 154079766
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4807116
Wiki­data ID
Q2745144
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Glenville” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “غلينفيل”
  • Basque: “Glenville”
  • Catalan: “Glenville”
  • Cebuano: “Glenville”
  • Chechen: “Гленвилл”
  • Chinese: “Glenville”
  • Chinese: “格伦维尔”
  • Chinese: “格林維爾”
  • Chinese: “格林维尔”
  • Dutch: “Glenville”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “جلينفيل”
  • French: “Glenville”
  • German: “Glenville”
  • Gilaki: “گلنویل (خۊرخۊسي ويرجينيا)”
  • Gilaki: “گلنویل”
  • Hungarian: “Glenville”
  • Italian: “Glenville”
  • Ladin: “Glenville”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Glenville”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Glenville”
  • Norwegian: “Glenville”
  • Persian: “گلنویل، ویرجینیای غربی”
  • Persian: “گلنویل”
  • Polish: “Glenville”
  • Portuguese: “Glenville”
  • Russian: “Гленвилл”
  • Serbian: “Гленвил”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Glenville, West Virginia”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Glenville”
  • Spanish: “Glenville (Virginia Occidental)”
  • Spanish: “Glenville”
  • Swedish: “Glenville, West Virginia”
  • Swedish: “Glenville”
  • Tatar: “Гленвилл”
  • Ukrainian: “Гленвілл”
  • Urdu: “گلینویل، مغربی ورجینیا”
  • Urdu: “گلینویل”
  • Volapük: “Glenville, West Virginia”
  • Volapük: “Glenville”
  • Welsh: “Glenville, Gorllewin Virginia”
  • Welsh: “Glenville”

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