Sprigg
Sprigg is an unincorporated community in Mingo County, West Virginia, United States. Sprigg is located on the Tug Fork and West Virginia Route 49, 5.4 miles southeast of Williamson.- Type: Hamlet
- Description: unincorporated community in Mingo County, West Virginia
- Also known as: “Sprigg, West Virginia” and “Sprigg, WV”
Places of Interest
Highlights include Matewan Historic District and Matewan High School.
Matewan Historic District
Heritage site
Photo: FloNight, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Matewan Historic District encompasses the town center of the rural coal mining community of Matewan, West Virginia. Matewan was the scene of the Battle of Matewan on May 19, 1920, during a coal miners' strike, an event which led to the Battle of Blair Mountain, the largest insurrection ever associated with the labor movement in the United States, and was depicted in the film Matewan. Matewan Historic District is situated 2 miles east of Sprigg.
Matewan High School
School
Magnolia Matewan High School was a public high school located in Matewan, West Virginia. The school has been in a succession of four different buildings since 1914.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Merrimac and Burnwell.
Merrimac
Hamlet
Merrimac is an unincorporated community located in Mingo County, West Virginia, United States. Its post office is closed. Merrimac is a name derived from a Native American language meaning "swift water".
Burnwell
Hamlet
Burnwell is an unincorporated community located in Pike County, Kentucky, United States.
Lobata
Hamlet
Lobata is an unincorporated community in Mingo County, West Virginia, United States. Lobata is located on the Tug Fork and West Virginia Route 49, 5.2 miles east-southeast of Williamson. Lobata had a post office, which closed on July 1, 1989.
Sprigg
- Categories: unincorporated community in the United States and locality
- Location: Mingo, West Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.62872° or 37° 37′ 43″ northLongitude
-82.19736° or 82° 11′ 51″ westElevation
702 feet (214 metres)Open location code
869VJRH3+F3OpenStreetMap ID
node 154040729OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From French to South Azerbaijani—“Sprigg” goes by many names.
- French: “Sprigg”
- South Azerbaijani: “ایسپریج، باتی ویرجینیا”
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