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0745-7111. OCLC number. 9395264. Website. coalvalleynews .com. The Coal Valley News is a weekly newspaper produced in Madison in the U.S. state of West Virginia. [2] Published on Wednesdays, it has a 2016 circulation of 1,176, [1] and is owned by HD Media. [3]
Boone County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 21,809. [ 1] Its county seat is Madison. [ 2] Boone County is part of the Charleston, WV Metropolitan Statistical Area. Leading industries and chief agricultural products in Boone County include coal, lumber, natural gas, tobacco, and ...
The Coal River is a tributary of the Kanawha River in southern West Virginia. It is formed near the community of Alum Creek by the confluence of the Big and Little Coal Rivers, and flows generally northward through western Kanawha County, past the community of Upper Falls and into the Kanawha River at St. Albans .
Location of Whitesville in Boone County, West Virginia. / 37.98139°N 81.53417°W / 37.98139; -81.53417. Whitesville is a town and former coal town in Boone County, West Virginia, United States, along the Big Coal River. The population was 361 at the 2020 census. [2] Whitesville was incorporated on August 15, 1935, by the Boone County ...
The Coal Valley News began publication of newspapers in 1925. In 1925, there were 60 coal mines in Boone County producing over 4.5 million tons of coal. (Boone County West Virginia History, published 1990)
Coordinates: 38°5′N 81°59′W. The Hobet 21 Coal Mine in West Virginia was operational between 1974 and 2015. Straddling the border of Boone County and Lincoln County in the Appalachian Mountains, the Hobet 21 mine was one of the largest mountaintop-removal coal mining operations in West Virginia. Originally owned by Fil Nutter, the mine ...
Media of cities in West Virginia: Charleston, Huntington, Wheeling. Journalism. Category:Journalists from West Virginia. West Virginia University Reed College of Media, in Morgantown. Marshall University Pitt School of Journalism and Mass Communications (est. 1926) [33] West Virginia literature. U.S. newspapers.
Geologic Map of West Virginia. West Virginia's geologic history stretches back into the Precambrian, and includes several periods of mountain building and erosion. At times, much of what is now West Virginia was covered by swamps, marshlands, and shallow seas, accounting for the wide variety of sedimentary rocks found in the state, as well as its wealth of coal and natural gas deposits.