Champwood is an unincorporated community on

Patterson Creek Patterson Creek is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed August 15, 2011 tributary of the North Branch Potomac River in West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle, in the United States. ...

in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States. It is part of the '

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, MD- WV Metropolitan Statistical Area'. Champwood lies along

West Virginia Route 46 West Virginia Route 46 is an east–west state highway split into two segments in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States. The western terminus of the western segment is at West Virginia Route 42 in Elk Garden. The eastern terminus is at ...

. The name is a portmanteau of Champ Clark and Woodrow Wilson, who were, respectively, an early settler and the

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Unincorporated communities in Mineral County, West Virginia Unincorporated communities in West Virginia {{MineralCountyWV-geo-stub