Rowlesburg
Rowlesburg is a town in southern Preston County, West Virginia, United States, along the Cheat River. The population was 438 at the 2020 census. A former railroad town, it is home to the Downtown Rowlesburg Historic District, and was the site of action during the American Civil War.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 621 residents
- Description: town in West Virginia, United States
- Also known as: “Rowlesburg, West Virginia”, “Rowlesburg, WV”, “Rowlesburgh”, “The River City”, “Tunnelton”, and “Vicksburg”
- Postal code: 26425
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Manheim and Macomber.
Manheim
Hamlet
Manheim is a small neighborhood located near the Cheat River that is incorporated within the town of Rowlesburg in Preston County, West Virginia, United States. The community was named, directly or indirectly, after Manheim, in Germany.
Macomber
Hamlet
Macomber is an unincorporated community in Preston County, West Virginia, United States. Macomber is situated 2½ miles southwest of Rowlesburg.
Mount Olivet
Hamlet
Mount Olivet is an unincorporated community in Preston County, West Virginia, United States. Mount Olivet is 2.5 miles east of Rowlesburg. Mount Olivet is situated 3 miles east of Rowlesburg.
Rowlesburg
- Categories: town in the United States and locality
- Location: Preston, West Virginia, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
39.34843° or 39° 20′ 54″ northLongitude
-79.67089° or 79° 40′ 15″ westPopulation
621Elevation
1,385 feet (422 metres)Open location code
87F288XH+9JOpenStreetMap ID
node 158265418OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
4820758Wikidata ID
Q1626125
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Welsh—“Rowlesburg” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “رولسبورغ”
- Basque: “Rowlesburg”
- Catalan: “Rowlesburg”
- Cebuano: “Rowlesburg”
- Chechen: “Роулсбург”
- Chinese: “Rowlesburg”
- Dutch: “Rowlesburg”
- French: “Rowlesburg”
- German: “Rowlesburg”
- Gilaki: “رؤلزبرگ (خۊرخۊسي ويرجينيا)”
- Gilaki: “رؤلزبرگ”
- Hungarian: “Rowlesburg”
- Italian: “Rowlesburg”
- Ladin: “Rowlesburg”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Rowlesburg”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Rowlesburg”
- Norwegian: “Rowlesburg”
- Persian: “روولسبورگ”
- Polish: “Rowlesburg”
- Portuguese: “Rowlesburg”
- Serbian: “Rowlesburg, West Virginia”
- Serbian: “Rowlesburg”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Rowlesburg, West Virginia”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Rowlesburg”
- Spanish: “Rowlesburg”
- Tatar: “Роулсбург”
- Ukrainian: “Роулсбург”
- Volapük: “Rowlesburg”
- Welsh: “Rowlesburg, Gorllewin Virginia”
- Welsh: “Rowlesburg”
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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 “Rowlesburg”. Photo: Mitchazenia, CC BY-SA 4.0.