Auvil is an

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Tucker County Tucker County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,762, making it West Virginia's fourth-least populous county. Its county seat is Parsons. The county was created in 1856 from a part of Ra ...

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, United States. Auvil is located northwest of

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on the west bank of the

Cheat River The Cheat River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map , accessed August 15, 2011 tributary of the Monongahela River in eastern West Virginia and southwestern Pennsylvania in the Uni ...

. Auvil lies along

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. According to the

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, the community has also been known as Auviltown.

References

Unincorporated communities in Tucker County, West Virginia Unincorporated communities in West Virginia {{TuckerCountyWV-geo-stub