West Virginia Gazetteers

Many place names can be found in the West Virginia Heritage Encyclopedia Richwood: Jim Comstock, 1976. 25 Volumes. 975.4 H26w, volumes 1-25.

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 film 928042 item 4.)

Kenny, Hamill T. West Virginia Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning. Piedmont, West Virginia: Place Names Press, 1945.

Web Sites

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

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