West Virginia
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Mason

Point Pleasant

Point Pleasant is a town of 4,637 people in . These days it's best-known for a series of mysterious paranormal occurrences that began in 1966.
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  • Type: Town with 4,480 residents
  • Description: city and the county seat of Mason County, West Virginia, United States
  • Also known as: “Long Point”, “Point Pleasant, West Virginia”, “Point Pleasant, WV”, and “Pt Pleasant”
  • Postal code: 25550

Places of Interest

Highlights include Tu-Endie-Wei Point Pleasant Battle Monument State Park and Silver Memorial Bridge.

Park
Photo: Bitmapped, CC BY-SA 3.0.
Tu-Endie-Wei State Park is located at the confluence of the and the Ohio River in downtown Point Pleasant, West Virginia, United States. The park commemorates the Battle of Point Pleasant, fought between the settler militia of and the forces of Shawnee Chief Cornstalk on October 10, 1774.

Bridge
Photo: Scott Stewart, CC BY 2.0.
The Silver Bridge was an eyebar-chain suspension bridge built in 1928 that carried U.S. Route 35 over the Ohio River, connecting Point Pleasant, West Virginia, and .

Aerodrome
is a publicly owned, public use located in , . The airport is named after and .

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Kanauga.

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in , , United States. As of the 2020 census it had a population of 185.

Point Pleasant

Latitude
38.8445° or 38° 50′ 40″ north
Longitude
-82.1371° or 82° 8′ 14″ west
Population
4,480
Elevation
568 feet (173 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US PPZ
Open location code
86CVRVV7+R5
Open­Street­Map ID
node 154301579
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4818750
Wiki­data ID
Q1011524
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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Point Pleasant” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “بوينت بليزانت”
  • Basque: “Point Pleasant”
  • Catalan: “Point Pleasant”
  • Cebuano: “Point Pleasant”
  • Chechen: “Пойнт-Плезант (Малхбузен Вирджини)”
  • Chechen: “Пойнт-Плезант”
  • Chinese: “Point Pleasant”
  • Chinese: “波因特普萊森特”
  • Cornish: “Point Pleasant, Virjynni West”
  • Czech: “Point Pleasant”
  • Dagbani: “Point Pleasant”
  • Danish: “Point Pleasant”
  • Dutch: “Point Pleasant”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “بوينت بليزانت”
  • French: “Point Pleasant”
  • German: “Point Pleasant”
  • Gilaki: “پؤینت پلزنت (خۊرخۊسي ويرجينيا)”
  • Gilaki: “پؤینت پلزنت”
  • Hebrew: “פוינט פלזנט”
  • Hungarian: “Point Pleasant”
  • Irish: “Point Pleasant”
  • Italian: “Point Pleasant”
  • Korean: “포인트플레전트”
  • Ladin: “Point Pleasant”
  • Lithuanian: “Point Plezantas”
  • Malagasy: “Point Pleasant, West Virginia”
  • Malagasy: “Point Pleasant”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Point Pleasant”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Point Pleasant, West Virginia”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Point Pleasant”
  • Norwegian: “Point Pleasant”
  • Occitan (post 1500): “Point Pleasant”
  • Persian: “پوینت پلزنت، ویرجینیای غربی”
  • Persian: “پوینت پلزنت”
  • Polish: “Point Pleasant”
  • Portuguese: “Point Pleasant”
  • Romanian: “Point Pleasant, Virginia de Vest”
  • Romanian: “Point Pleasant”
  • Russian: “Пойнт-Плезант”
  • Serbian: “Поинт Плезант”
  • Serbian: “Појнт Плезант”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Point Pleasant, West Virginia”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Point Pleasant”
  • Slovak: “Point Pleasant”
  • Slovenian: “Point Pleasant”
  • Spanish: “Point Pleasant (Virginia Occidental)”
  • Spanish: “Point Pleasant”
  • Swedish: “Point Pleasant, West Virginia”
  • Swedish: “Point Pleasant”
  • Tatar: “Пойнт-Плезант (Көнбатыш Вирджиния)”
  • Tatar: “Пойнт-Плезант”
  • Ukrainian: “Пойнт-Плезант”
  • Volapük: “Point Pleasant, West Virginia”
  • Volapük: “Point Pleasant”
  • Welsh: “Point Pleasant, Gorllewin Virginia”
  • Welsh: “Point Pleasant”

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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 “Point Pleasant”. Photo: Wikimedia, Public domain.