Kanawha Falls
Kanawha Falls is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. Kanawha Falls is located on the east bank of the Kanawha River, 2 miles southwest of Gauley Bridge and 0.6 miles downstream from the waterfall of the same name.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Ken Thomas, Public domain.
- Type: Hamlet with 50 residents
- Description: unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia
- Also known as: “Kanawha Falls, West Virginia”, “Kanawha Falls, WV”, and “Montgomerys Ferry”
- Postal code: 25115
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Glen Ferris and Boonesborough.
Glen Ferris
Village
Glen Ferris is a census-designated place on the western bank of the Kanawha River in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. It is situated approximately one mile south of the town of Gauley Bridge and adjacent to Kanawha Falls.
Boonesborough
Hamlet
Boonesborough is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States.
Old Gauley
Hamlet
Old Gauley is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States.
Kanawha Falls
- Categories: unincorporated community in the United States and locality
- Location: Fayette, West Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
38.14261° or 38° 8′ 33″ northLongitude
-81.2065° or 81° 12′ 23″ westPopulation
50Elevation
659 feet (201 metres)Open location code
86CW4QVV+2COpenStreetMap ID
node 153966072OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
4810636Wikidata ID
Q6360807
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In Other Languages
From French to Persian—“Kanawha Falls” goes by many names.
- French: “Kanawha Falls”
- Irish: “Kanawha Falls”
- Persian: “کاناوا فالز، ویرجینیای غربی”
- Persian: “کاناوا فالز”
- “Kanawha Falls”
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About Mapcarta. Data © OpenStreetMap contributors and available under the Open Database License". Text is available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, except for photos, directions, and the map. Description text is based on the Wikipedia page “Kanawha Falls”. Photo: Ken Thomas, Public domain.