Wharton
Wharton is an unincorporated community and coal town on the Pond Fork River in Boone County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Wharton lies along West Virginia Route 85. Wharton was named for Joseph Wharton, a large landowner from Philadelphia.| Tap on a place to explore it |
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.
- Type: Hamlet
- Description: unincorporated community in Boone County, West Virginia
- Also known as: “Wharton, West Virginia” and “Wharton, WV”
- Postal code: 25208
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Pondco and Barrett.
Barrett
Hamlet
Barrett is a small unincorporated community and coal town with a population of 781 in Boone County in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Barrett lies along the Pond Fork River.
Bim
Hamlet
Bim is an unincorporated community and coal town in Boone County, West Virginia, United States. Bim is located on West Virginia Route 85, 12 miles southeast of Madison.
Wharton
- Categories: unincorporated community in the United States and locality
- Location: Boone, West Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude
37.90344° or 37° 54′ 12″ northLongitude
-81.67734° or 81° 40′ 38″ westElevation
958 feet (292 metres)Open location code
869WW83F+93OpenStreetMap ID
node 153939204OpenStreetMap feature
place=hamlet
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In Other Languages
From French to Volapük—“Wharton” goes by many names.
- French: “Wharton”
- Persian: “وارتون، ویرجینیای غربی”
- Persian: “وارتون”
- South Azerbaijani: “وارتون، باتی ویرجینیا”
- Volapük: “Wharton (WV)”
- Volapük: “Wharton, West Virginia”
- Volapük: “Wharton, WV”
- Volapük: “Wharton”
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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 “Wharton”. Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.