Brilliant
Brilliant is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in eastern Jefferson County, Ohio, United States, along the Ohio River. It was named after the Brilliant Glass factory that once was located in the town.| Tap on a place to explore it |
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- Type: Village with 1,480 residents
- Description: census-designated place in Jefferson County, Ohio
- Also known as: “Brilliant, OH”, “Brilliant, Ohio”, “La Grange”, “LaGrange”, “Philipsburg”, “Philipsburgh”, and “Phillipsburg”
- Postal code: 43913
Places of Interest
Highlights include Wellsburg Wharf and Cardinal Power Plant.
Wellsburg Wharf
Park
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.
Wellsburg Wharf is a historic wharf located at Wellsburg, Brooke County, West Virginia. The public wharf was built in 1836 on the Ohio River. The site consists of remains of the wharf and the foundations of two warehouses.
Cardinal Power Plant
Power station
Photo: Mr. Matté, CC BY-SA 4.0.
Cardinal Power Plant is a 1.8-gigawatt coal power plant located south of Brilliant, Ohio, in Jefferson County, Ohio. The power plant has three units. Cardinal is co-owned with Unit 1 owned by American Electric Power's subsidiary, AEP Generation Resources. Cardinal Power Plant is situated 2 miles southwest of Brilliant.
Brooke Cemetery
Cemetery
Photo: Nyttend, Public domain.
Brooke Cemetery is a historic rural cemetery located at Wellsburg, Brooke County, West Virginia. It was founded in 1857. It includes several notable examples of funerary art in its headstones, above ground crypts, and mausolea dating to the 19th and early 20th century. Brooke Cemetery is situated 2 miles northeast of Brilliant.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Dutch Town and Wellsburg.
Dutch Town
Neighborhood
Dutch Town is an unincorporated community in Brooke County, West Virginia, United States.
Wellsburg
Town
Photo: Taber Andrew Bain, CC BY 2.0.
Wellsburg is a city in and the county seat of Brooke County, West Virginia, United States. The 2020 census recorded a population of 2,455. It is a part of the Weirton–Steubenville metropolitan area.
Rabbit Hill
Hamlet
Rabbit Hill is an unincorporated community in Brooke County, West Virginia, United States. Rabbit Hill is situated 2½ miles northeast of Brilliant.
Brilliant
Latitude
40.26479° or 40° 15′ 53″ northLongitude
-80.62619° or 80° 37′ 34″ westPopulation
1,480Elevation
689 feet (210 metres)United Nations Location Code
US TJBOpen location code
86GX797F+WGOpenStreetMap ID
node 153866454OpenStreetMap feature
place=village
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In Other Languages
From Cebuano to Volapük—“Brilliant” goes by many names.
- Cebuano: “Brilliant”
- Chechen: “Брильянт”
- Chinese: “布里連特 (俄亥俄州)”
- Chinese: “布里連特”
- Dutch: “Brilliant”
- French: “Brilliant”
- German: “Brilliant”
- Gilaki: “بریلیانت (اؤهایؤ)”
- Gilaki: “بریلیانت”
- Irish: “Brilliant”
- Italian: “Brilliant”
- Ladin: “Brilliant”
- Persian: “بریلینت، اوهایو”
- Persian: “بریلینت”
- Polish: “Brilliant”
- Portuguese: “Brilliant”
- Serbian: “Брилијант”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Brilliant, Ohio”
- Serbo-Croatian: “Brilliant”
- South Azerbaijani: “بریلیانت، اوهایو”
- Spanish: “Brilliant”
- Swedish: “Brilliant, Ohio”
- Swedish: “Brilliant”
- Tatar: “Брильянт”
- Ukrainian: “Брильянт”
- Volapük: “Brilliant”
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