Johnson Island

Johnson Island is a bar in the Greenbrier River at its confluence with Muddy Creek in Alderson, West Virginia, United States. The island lies in Greenbrier County, with the Alderson Federal Prison Camp located to its southwest across the county line in Summers County.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Alderson station and Federal Prison Camp Alderson.

Alderson station

Railway station

Photo: Bitmapped, CC BY-SA 3.0.

Alderson station is an Amtrak station in Alderson, West Virginia, served by the Cardinal. It is located at 1 C&O Plaza, and functions as a request stop.

Federal Prison Camp Alderson

Prison

Photo: CZmarlin, CC BY-SA 3.0.

The Federal Prison Camp, Alderson is a minimum-security United States federal prison for female inmates in West Virginia. It is operated by the Federal Bureau of Prisons, a division of the United States Department of Justice.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Glenray and Alderson.

Glenray

Hamlet

Glenray is an unincorporated community in Summers County, West Virginia, United States. Glenray is located on the south bank of the Greenbrier River, west of Alderson.

Alderson

Village

Photo: CZmarlin, CC BY 3.0.

Alderson is a town in Greenbrier and Monroe counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia, on both sides of the Greenbrier River. The population was 975 at the 2020 census.

Griffith Creek

Hamlet

Griffith Creek is an unincorporated community in Summers County, West Virginia, United States. Griffith Creek is located along the Greenbrier River and West Virginia routes 3 and 12, west of Alderson.

Johnson Island

Type: Islet
Description: island in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, United States of America
Categories: river island, island, locality, and landform
Location: Greenbrier, West Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

37.72901° or 37° 43′ 44″ north

Longitude

-80.65508° or 80° 39′ 18″ west

Elevation

1,539 feet (469 metres)

Open location code

869XP8HV+JX

OpenStreetMap ID

node 356517900

OpenStreetMap feature

place=islet

GeoNames ID

4810429

Wikidata ID

Q6268339

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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Norwegian Nynorsk—“Johnson Island” goes by many names.

Arabic: “جزيرة جونسون”
Cebuano: “Johnson Island”
Norwegian Nynorsk: “Johnson Island”

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Localities in the Area

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Notable Places Nearby

Highlights include Alderson Church of God and Alderson Station.

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