Thurmond
Thurmond is a town in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States, on the New River. The population was recorded as 5 in the 2020 census. During the heyday of coal mining in the New River Gorge, Thurmond was a prosperous town with a number of businesses and facilities for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Hamlet with 5 residents
- Description: town in Fayette County, West Virginia
- Also known as: “Little Monte Carlo”, “Little New York”, “Thurmond, West Virginia”, and “Thurmond, WV”
- Postal code: 25936
Places of Interest
Highlights include Thurmond station.
Thurmond station
Railway station
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Thurmond station is a train station in Thurmond, West Virginia, United States, that is served by Amtrak, the national railroad passenger system. The Cardinal, which runs three times each week between Chicago, Illinois and Washington, DC, passes by the station three times each week in both directions.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dimmock and Sanger.
Dimmock
Hamlet
Dimmock is an unincorporated community and coal town in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. The community most likely was named after the local Dimmock family.
Sanger
Hamlet
Sanger is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. The community was named after Henry Sanger, an early settler. Sanger is situated 1½ miles west of Thurmond.
Minden
Hamlet
Minden is a census-designated place in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 250. It has possessed a post office since 1905. Minden is situated 2½ miles northwest of Thurmond.
Thurmond
- Categories: ghost town, town in the United States, and locality
- Location: Fayette, West Virginia, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
37.9615° or 37° 57′ 41″ northLongitude
-81.08232° or 81° 4′ 56″ westPopulation
5Elevation
1,070 feet (326 metres)Open location code
869WXW69+J3OpenStreetMap ID
node 154362493OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamletGeoNames ID
4824749Wikidata ID
Q3313681
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Satellite Map
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In Other Languages
From Arabic to Volapük—“Thurmond” goes by many names.
- Arabic: “ثورموند”
- Basque: “Thurmond”
- Catalan: “Thurmond”
- Chechen: “Термонд”
- Chinese: “Thurmond”
- Chinese: “瑟蒙德”
- Dutch: “Thurmond”
- Egyptian Arabic: “ثورموند”
- French: “Thurmond”
- German: “Thurmond”
- Gilaki: “ترموند (خۊرخۊسي ويرجينيا)”
- Gilaki: “ترموند”
- Hungarian: “Thurmond”
- Italian: “Thurmond”
- Japanese: “サーモンド”
- Min Nan Chinese: “Thurmond”
- Norwegian Bokmål: “Thurmond”
- Norwegian: “Thurmond”
- Persian: “ترمند”
- Polish: “Thurmond”
- Portuguese: “Thurmond”
- Russian: “Тармонд”
- Russian: “Термонд”
- Serbian: “Тармонд”
- Serbian: “Термонд”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Thurmond, West Virginia”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Thurmond”
- South Azerbaijani: “تورموند، باتی ویرجینیا”
- Spanish: “Thurmond”
- Tatar: “Термонд”
- Ukrainian: “Термонд”
- Volapük: “Thurmond, West Virginia”
- Volapük: “Thurmond”
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Notable Places Nearby
Highlights include Thurmond Town Hall and Thurmond Post Office.
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