Grant Town
Grant Town is a town in Marion County, West Virginia, in the eastern United States. The population was 690 at the 2020 census. The town was formed in 1901 with the opening of the Federal Coal and Coke Company bituminous coal mine, and was named for Robert Grant, vice president of the coal company.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Village with 642 residents
- Description: human settlement in Marion County, West Virginia, United States of America
- Also known as: “Grant Town, West Virginia”, “Grant Town, WV”, “Granttown”, “Grays Flat”, and “Graysflat”
- Postal code: 26574
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Paw Paw and Baxter.
Paw Paw
Hamlet
Paw Paw is an unincorporated community in Marion County, West Virginia, United States. Paw Paw is situated 1½ miles southeast of Grant Town.
Baxter
Village
Baxter is an unincorporated community in Marion County, West Virginia, United States. Baxter lies to the northwest of Rivesville along Paw Paw Creek. The town was once the site of the Stafford Mine, one of the largest bituminous coal mines in Marion County, owned by the New Central Coal Company of New York. Baxter is situated 2½ miles southeast of Grant Town.
Pleasant View
Hamlet
Pleasant View is an unincorporated community in Marion County, West Virginia, United States. Pleasant View is located along U.S. Route 19, 1.3 miles north of Rivesville. Pleasant View is situated 3½ miles east of Grant Town.
Grant Town
- Categories: town in the United States and locality
- Location: Marion, West Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
39.55814° or 39° 33′ 29″ northLongitude
-80.18174° or 80° 10′ 54″ westPopulation
642Elevation
988 feet (301 metres)Open location code
86FXHR59+78OpenStreetMap ID
node 153976958OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
4807374Wikidata ID
Q3291538
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Grant Town” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “غرانت تاون”
- Basque: “Grant Town”
- Catalan: “Grant Town”
- Cebuano: “Grant Town”
- Chechen: “Грант-Таун”
- Chinese: “Grant Town”
- Dutch: “Grant Town”
- Egyptian Arabic: “جرانت تاون”
- French: “Grant Town”
- German: “Grant Town”
- Gilaki: “گرنتتاؤن (خۊرخۊسي ويرجينيا)”
- Gilaki: “گرنتتاؤن”
- Italian: “Grant Town”
- Ladin: “Grant Town”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Grant Town”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Grant Town”
- Norwegian: “Grant Town”
- Persian: “گرنت تاون”
- Polish: “Grant Town”
- Portuguese: “Grant Town”
- Serbian: “Грант Таун”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Grant Town, West Virginia”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Grant Town”
- Spanish: “Grant Town”
- Tatar: “Грант-Таун”
- Ukrainian: “Грант-Таун”
- Urdu: “گرانٹ ٹاؤن، مغربی ورجینیا”
- Urdu: “گرانٹ ٹاؤن”
- Volapük: “Grant Town”
- Welsh: “Grant Town, Gorllewin Virginia”
- Welsh: “Grant Town”
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