West Virginia Gazetteers

Many place names can be found in:

Comstock, Jim F. The West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia. Richwood, West Virginia: Comstock, 1976. 25 Volumes. (Family History Library .)

Other sources of information about places in West Virginia are:

Gannett, Henry. A Gazetteer of Virginia and West Virginia. 1904. Reprint. Baltimore, Maryland: Genealogical Publishing Company, 1975. (Family History Library .)

Kenny, Hamill T. West Virginia Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning. Piedmont, West Virginia: Place Names Press, 1945. (Family History Library .)

Web Sites
http://www.wvculture.org/History/services.html

http://wvgis.wvu.edu/data/gazetteer.php?action=gazetteer