West Virginia
New River & Greenbrier Valleys
Raleigh

Beckley

Beckley is a city of 17,256 in , and is the county seat of Raleigh County pop. 74,591. It sits on a high plateau above the New River Gorge at an elevation of 2,418 feet.
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  • Type: City with 16,800 residents
  • Description: city in and county seat of Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States
  • Also known as: “Beckley, West Virginia”, “Beckley, WV”, “Beckleyville”, “Raleigh”, and “Raleigh Court House”
  • Postal codes: 25801 and 25802

Places in the Area

Nearby places include MacArthur and Sprague.

Village
is a census-designated place in , , United States. Originally, it was named Hollywood and renamed after General of the Army Douglas in 1942. The population was 1,376 at the 2020 census.

Village
is an unincorporated community and coal town in , , United States. is located on West Virginia Route 16, 1 mile north of downtown Beckley.

Hamlet
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is an unincorporated community and coal town in , , United States. is 1.5 miles southeast of downtown Beckley.

Beckley

Latitude
37.7782° or 37° 46′ 41″ north
Longitude
-81.1882° or 81° 11′ 17″ west
Population
16,800
Elevation
2,421 feet (738 metres)
IATA airport code
BKW
United Nations Location Code
US BKW
Open location code
869WQRH6+7P
Open­Street­Map ID
node 153910581
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­city
Geo­Names ID
4798308
Wiki­data ID
Q813745
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Beckley” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بيكلي”
  • Basque: “Beckley”
  • Bulgarian: “Бекли”
  • Catalan: “Beckley”
  • Cebuano: “Beckley”
  • Chechen: “Бекли (Малхбузен Вирджини)”
  • Chechen: “Бекли”
  • Chinese: “Beckley”
  • Chinese: “贝克利”
  • Cornish: “Beckley, Virjynni West”
  • Cornish: “Beckley, Vyrjynia West”
  • Cornish: “Beckley, Vyrjynni West”
  • Czech: “Beckley”
  • Dagbani: “Beckley”
  • Danish: “Beckley”
  • Dutch: “Beckley”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بيكلى”
  • Esperanto: “Beckley”
  • French: “Beckley”
  • German: “Beckley”
  • Gilaki: “بکلی (خۊرخۊسي ويرجينيا)”
  • Gilaki: “بکلی”
  • Hebrew: “בקלי”
  • Hungarian: “Beckley”
  • Interlingua: “Beckley”
  • Irish: “Beckley”
  • Italian: “Beckley”
  • Japanese: “ベックリー”
  • Korean: “베클리”
  • Ladin: “Beckley”
  • Malagasy: “Beckley, West Virginia”
  • Malagasy: “Beckley”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Beckley”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Beckley”
  • Norwegian: “Beckley”
  • Persian: “بکلی، ویرجینیای غربی”
  • Persian: “بکلی”
  • Polish: “Beckley”
  • Portuguese: “Beckley”
  • Russian: “Бекли”
  • Serbian: “Бекли”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Beckley, West Virginia”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Beckley”
  • Slovak: “Beckley”
  • Slovenian: “Beckley”
  • South Azerbaijani: “بکلئی، باتی ویرجینیا”
  • Spanish: “Beckley (Virginia Occidental)”
  • Spanish: “Beckley”
  • Swedish: “Beckley, West Virginia”
  • Swedish: “Beckley”
  • Tagalog: “Beckley”
  • Talysh: “Bekli”
  • Tatar: “Бекли”
  • Turkish: “Beckley, Batı Virginia”
  • Turkish: “Beckley”
  • Ukrainian: “Беклі”
  • Urdu: “بیلکی، مغربی ورجینیا”
  • Urdu: “بیلکی”
  • Vietnamese: “Beckley, Tây Virginia”
  • Vietnamese: “Beckley, West Virginia”
  • Vietnamese: “Beckley, WV”
  • Vietnamese: “Beckley”
  • Volapük: “Beckley (West Virginia)”
  • Volapük: “Beckley (WV)”
  • Volapük: “Beckley, West Virginia”
  • Volapük: “Beckley, WV”
  • Volapük: “Beckley”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Beckley, West Virginia”
  • Waray (Philippines): “Beckley”
  • Welsh: “Beckley, Gorllewin Virginia”
  • Welsh: “Beckley”

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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 Wikivoyage page “Beckley”. Photo: Malepheasant, CC BY-SA 3.0 us.