Sylvester
Sylvester is a town in Boone County, West Virginia, United States, along the Big Coal River. The population was 166 at the 2020 census. Sylvester was incorporated on April 11, 1952, by the Boone County Circuit Court.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 470 residents
- Description: human settlement in Boone County, West Virginia, United States of America
- Also known as: “Sylvester, West Virginia” and “Sylvester, WV”
- Postal code: 25193
Places of Interest
Highlights include Whitesville Elementary School.
Whitesville Elementary School
School
Photo: Coal town guy, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Whitesville School, also known as Sherman District Junior High School, Whitesville Junior High School, and Whitesville Elementary School, is a historic school building located at Whitesville, Boone County, West Virginia. Whitesville Elementary School is situated 2½ miles southeast of Sylvester.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Elk Run Junction and Janie.
Elk Run Junction
Locality
Elk Run Junction is an unincorporated community in Boone County, West Virginia, United States.
Janie
Hamlet
Janie is an unincorporated community and former coal town known as Mordue in Boone County, West Virginia, United States. Janie is situated 2 miles southeast of Sylvester.
Keith
Hamlet
Keith is an unincorporated community and coal town in Boone County, West Virginia, United States. Keith is situated 2½ miles north of Sylvester.
Sylvester
- Categories: town in the United States and locality
- Location: Boone, West Virginia, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.01038° or 38° 0′ 37″ northLongitude
-81.55761° or 81° 33′ 27″ westPopulation
470Elevation
866 feet (264 metres)Open location code
86CW2C6R+5XOpenStreetMap ID
node 154401432OpenStreetMap feature
place=villageGeoNames ID
4824260Wikidata ID
Q2035964
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Volapük—“Sylvester” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “سيلفستر”
- Basque: “Sylvester”
- Catalan: “Sylvester”
- Cebuano: “Sylvester”
- Chechen: “Сильвестер”
- Chinese: “Sylvester”
- Dutch: “Sylvester”
- Egyptian Arabic: “بلده سيلفستر”
- Egyptian Arabic: “سيلفستر”
- French: “Sylvester”
- German: “Sylvester”
- Gilaki: “سيلوستر (خۊرخۊسي ويرجينيا)”
- Gilaki: “سيلوستر”
- Hungarian: “Sylvester”
- Italian: “Sylvester”
- Ladin: “Sylvester”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Sylvester”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Sylvester”
- Norwegian: “Sylvester”
- Persian: “سیلوستر”
- Polish: “Sylvester”
- Portuguese: “Sylvester”
- Serbian: “Силвестер”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sylvester, West Virginia”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Sylvester”
- Spanish: “Sylvester”
- Tatar: “Сильвестер”
- Ukrainian: “Сильвестер”
- Volapük: “Sylvester”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Sylvester Community Center and Whitesville Post Office.
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