Thread The Needle
Thread The Needle is a rapids in Fayette, West Virginia. Thread The Needle is situated nearby to the rapids Miller’s Folly, as well as near New River Gorge Bridge.Places of Interest Nearby
Highlights include New River Gorge Bridge and Tunney Hunsaker Bridge.
New River Gorge Bridge
Bridge
Photo: JaGa, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The New River Gorge Bridge is a steel arch bridge 3,030 feet long over the New River Gorge near Fayetteville, West Virginia, in the Appalachian Mountains of the eastern United States. New River Gorge Bridge is situated 340 feet south of Thread The Needle.
Tunney Hunsaker Bridge
Bridge
Photo: Chris Light, CC BY-SA 4.0.
The Tunney Hunsaker Bridge is an historic truss bridge over the New River in New River Gorge, West Virginia. The bridge is named after Tunney Hunsaker, American boxer and former chief-of-police at Fayetteville, West Virginia. Tunney Hunsaker Bridge is situated 2,500 feet southeast of Thread The Needle.
Fayette County Courthouse
Courthouse
Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.
Fayette County Courthouse is a historic courthouse located at Fayetteville, Fayette County, West Virginia. It was built in 1894–1895, and is a 2 1/2 story, five bay wide, rectangular building with projecting wings. Fayette County Courthouse is situated 1½ miles southwest of Thread The Needle.
Places in the Area
Nearby places include Fayette and Lansing.
Fayette
Hamlet
Fayette is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. Its elevation is 919 feet.
Lansing
Hamlet
Lansing is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. Lansing is located along U.S. Route 19, 2.5 miles northeast of Fayetteville. Lansing has a post office with ZIP code 25862.
Ames
Hamlet
Ames is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. It was also known as Elmo, a now defunct coal town. The last production of coal was reported in 1963.
Thread The Needle
- Type: Rapids
- Category: body of water
- Location: Fayette, West Virginia, South, United States, North America
- View on OpenStreetMap
Latitude
38.06966° or 38° 4′ 11″ northLongitude
-81.08314° or 81° 4′ 59″ westOpen location code
86CW3W98+VPOpenStreetMap ID
node 7942461140OpenStreetMap feature
waterway=rapids
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