Santafee
Santafee is an unincorporated community in Summers County, West Virginia, United States. Santafee is 3 miles west of Alderson. The community's name most likely is derived from "Santa Fe".- Type: Hamlet
- Description: unincorporated community in Summers County, West Virginia
- Also known as: “Santafee, West Virginia”, “Santafee, WV”, and “Santifee”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Federal Prison Camp Alderson and Johnson Island.
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. Federal Prison Camp Alderson is situated 1½ miles east of Santafee.
Johnson Island
Islet
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. Johnson Island is situated 2 miles east of Santafee.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Griffith Creek and Glenray.
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.
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. Glenray is situated 1½ miles east of Santafee.
Clayton
Hamlet
Clayton is an unincorporated community in Summers County, West Virginia, United States. The community was first settled in 1813. Clayton once had a post office, which opened in 1879 and closed in 1959. Clayton is situated 2 miles west of Santafee.
Santafee
- Categories: unincorporated community and locality
- Location: Summers, West Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.7279° or 37° 43′ 40″ northLongitude
-80.69425° or 80° 41′ 39″ westElevation
1,713 feet (522 metres)Open location code
869XP8H4+58OpenStreetMap ID
node 154318294OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
“Santafee” goes by many names.
- French: “Santafee”
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