Shank Town

Shank Town is a neighborhood in Brooke, West Virginia. Shank Town is situated nearby to the town Wellsburg, as well as near the neighborhood Dutch Town.

Places of Interest

Highlights include Wellsburg Wharf and Brooke Cemetery.

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.

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 High School

School

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Brooke High School is a public high school in Wellsburg, West Virginia, United States. It is the only high school in the Brooke County Schools. Athletic teams compete as the Brooke Bruins in the WVSSAC Class AAA as well as the Ohio Valley Athletic Conference. Brooke High School is situated 2 miles northeast of Shank Town.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Wellsburg and Rabbit Hill.

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.

Georges Run

Hamlet

Georges Run is an unincorporated community in Jefferson County, in the U.S. state of Ohio. Georges Run is situated 2 miles northwest of Shank Town.

Shank Town

Type: Neighborhood
Category: locality
Location: Brooke, West Virginia, South, United States, North America
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Latitude

40.27646° or 40° 16′ 35″ north

Longitude

-80.61091° or 80° 36′ 39″ west

Elevation

659 feet (201 metres)

Open location code

86GX79GQ+HJ

OpenStreetMap ID

node 154113314

OpenStreetMap feature

place=neighbourhood

GeoNames ID

5280691

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