McDowell
McDowell is an unincorporated community in McDowell County, West Virginia, United States. McDowell is 3.5 miles east-southeast of Northfork. The community most likely was named after the local McDowell Coal and Coke Company.| Tap on a place to explore it |
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: unincorporated community in McDowell County, West Virginia
- Also known as: “McDowell, West Virginia” and “McDowell, WV”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Ashland Company Store.
Ashland Company Store
Building
Photo: Bitmapped, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Ashland Company Store is a historic company store building located at Ashland, McDowell County, West Virginia. It was built in 1907, and is a two-story brick commercial building on a brick and stone foundation. Ashland Company Store is situated 1½ miles east of McDowell.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Worth and Rolfe.
Worth
Hamlet
Worth is an unincorporated community in McDowell County, West Virginia, United States. Worth is 3 miles east of Northfork. The community was named after Worth Kilpatrick, a coal mining official.
Rolfe
Hamlet
Rolfe is an unincorporated community in McDowell County, West Virginia, United States. Rolfe is 2 miles east of Northfork. Rolfe is situated 1½ miles northwest of McDowell.
Ashland
Hamlet
Ashland is an unincorporated community located in McDowell County, West Virginia, United States. Located on the headwaters of the North Fork of Elkhorn Creek, it is also the location of the national historic Ashland Company Store and the Ashland Trailhead for the Indian Ridge Trail, a part of the Hatfield McCoy Trail System. Ashland is situated 1½ miles east of McDowell.
McDowell
- Categories: unincorporated community in the United States and locality
- Location: McDowell, West Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.40289° or 37° 24′ 10″ northLongitude
-81.38038° or 81° 22′ 49″ westElevation
1,965 feet (599 metres)United Nations Location Code
US DJWOpen location code
869WCJ39+5ROpenStreetMap ID
node 154341823OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
4814181Wikidata ID
Q6801009
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In Other Languages
From French to Irish—“McDowell” goes by many names.
- French: “McDowell”
- Irish: “McDowell”
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