West Virginia
Mountains & Lakes Country
Harrison

Shinnston

Shinnston is a city in Mountaineer Country - north-central West Virginia. This is Mid-Atlantic region on some maps and South on others.
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  • Type: Town with 2,240 residents
  • Description: city in Harrison County, West Virginia, United States
  • Also known as: “Shin Town”, “Shinns Town”, “Shinnston, West Virginia”, “Shinnston, WV”, and “Shinnstown”
  • Postal code: 26431

Places of Interest

Highlights include Lincoln High School and Levi Shinn House.

School
is comprehensive four-year public high school located in Shinnston, West Virginia, in , in the United States. It operates as part of the Harrison County School District.

House
Photo: KLOTZPLATE, CC BY-SA 4.0.
is a historic home located at Shinnston, . It is a log dwelling built in 1778, and measuring 37 feet long and 20 feet deep.

Power station
Photo: Dhudson4god, Public domain.
is a 1.9-gigawatt coal-fired electricity-generating power station located in , , owned and operated by FirstEnergy.

Places in the Area

Nearby places include Bethlehem and Gypsy.

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community in , , United States. is located on County Route 12 along the eastern border of Shinnston.

Village
is a census-designated place in , , United States. As of the 2020 census, its population was 197.

Hamlet
is an unincorporated community and coal town in , , United States. Their post office closed in 1930.

Shinnston

Latitude
39.3954° or 39° 23′ 43″ north
Longitude
-80.3008° or 80° 18′ 3″ west
Population
2,240
Elevation
928 feet (283 metres)
United Nations Location Code
US SKF
Open location code
86FX9MWX+4M
Open­Street­Map ID
node 154358740
Open­Street­Map feature
place=­town
Geo­Names ID
4822050
Wiki­data ID
Q2709202
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Satellite Map

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In Other Languages

From Arabic to Welsh—“Shinnston” goes by many names.
  • Arabic: “شينستون”
  • Basque: “Shinnston”
  • Catalan: “Shinnston”
  • Cebuano: “Shinnston”
  • Chechen: “Шиннстон (Малхбузен Вирджини)”
  • Chechen: “Шиннстон”
  • Chinese: “Shinnston”
  • Czech: “Shinnston”
  • Danish: “Shinnston”
  • Dutch: “Shinnston”
  • Egyptian Arabic: “شينستون”
  • French: “Shinnston”
  • German: “Shinnston”
  • Gilaki: “شینستن (خۊرخۊسي ويرجينيا)”
  • Gilaki: “شینستن”
  • Irish: “Shinnston”
  • Italian: “Shinnston”
  • Ladin: “Shinnston”
  • Malagasy: “Shinnston, West Virginia”
  • Malagasy: “Shinnston”
  • Min Nan Chinese: “Shinnston”
  • Norwegian Bokmål: “Shinnston”
  • Norwegian: “Shinnston”
  • Persian: “شینستون، ویرجینیای غربی”
  • Persian: “شینستون”
  • Polish: “Shinnston”
  • Portuguese: “Shinnston”
  • Serbian: “Шинстон”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Shinnston, West Virginia”
  • Serbo-Croatian: “Shinnston”
  • Slovak: “Shinnston”
  • Spanish: “Shinnston (Virginia Occidental)”
  • Spanish: “Shinnston”
  • Tatar: “Шиннстон (Көнбатыш Вирджиния)”
  • Tatar: “Шиннстон”
  • Ukrainian: “Шиннстон”
  • Volapük: “Shinnston, West Virginia”
  • Volapük: “Shinnston”
  • Welsh: “Shinnston, Gorllewin Virginia”
  • Welsh: “Shinnston”

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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 “Shinnston”. Photo: Malepheasant, CC BY-SA 2.5.