Baileysville is an unincorporated community in Wyoming County, West Virginia, United States. Most of the town was purchased by the United States Army Corps of Engineers in the 1960s and 1970s for construction of the R. D. Bailey Lake. The Post Office was closed in 1973. The geographic name lived on in the local high school,

Baileysville High School Baileysville High School was a high school located in Wyoming County, West Virginia West Virginia is a state in the Appalachian, Mid-Atlantic and Southeastern regions of the United States.The Census Bureau and the Association of American ...

, which served a regional area and was actually located outside of the town proper. The school was closed in 2002 after consolidating with nearby Oceana High to form Westside High School. The community has the name of James Bailey, Sr., a local pioneer.

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Unincorporated communities in West Virginia Unincorporated communities in Wyoming County, West Virginia Populated places on the Guyandotte River {{WyomingCountyWV-geo-stub