Greenstown
Greenstown is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. The community derives its name from William Green, the original owner of the town site; a variant name was Towne.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia
- Also known as: “Greenstown, West Virginia”, “Greenstown, WV”, “Greentown”, and “Towne”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Whipple Company Store and Oak Hill High School.
Whipple Company Store
Building
Photo: Coal town guy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Whipple Company Store is a historic company store located in Whipple, West Virginia, United States. It was built about 1900, and is a two-story, frame octagon building.
Oak Hill High School
School
Photo: Ghemlocks, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Oak Hill High School is a high school located in Oak Hill, West Virginia. Its mascot is the Red Devil. In 2011, the state Board of Education closed nearby Mount Hope High School and those students were transferred to OHHS. Oak Hill High School is situated 2 miles north of Greenstown.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Oak Hill and Whipple.
Oak Hill
Photo: Malepheasant, CC BY-SA 3.0 us.
Oak Hill is a city of 8,100 people in West Virginia. The largest city in Fayette County, it was incorporated in 1905.
Whipple
Hamlet
Whipple is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. Whipple is located on West Virginia Route 612, 1.5 miles southwest of Oak Hill.
Scarbro
Village
Scarbro is a census-designated place and coal town in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. Scarbro is 1.5 miles southwest of Oak Hill. Scarbro has a post office with ZIP code 25917. As of the 2020 census, its population was 461.
Greenstown
- Categories: unincorporated community in the United States and locality
- Location: Fayette, West Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.96095° or 37° 57′ 39″ northLongitude
-81.14732° or 81° 8′ 50″ westElevation
1,906 feet (581 metres)Open location code
869WXV63+93OpenStreetMap ID
node 154373849OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From French to Irish—“Greenstown” goes by many names.
- French: “Greenstown”
- Irish: “Greenstown”
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