Crellin is an

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and

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(CDP) in

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, United States, with a population of 264 as of the 2010 census. Crellin was built as a

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, having been home to a large

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and lumber operation at the turn of the 20th century. The Preston Railroad, which had been named for

Preston County, West Virginia Preston County is a county located in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 34,216. Its county seat is Kingwood. The county was formed from Monongalia County in 1818 and named for Virginia Governor James P ...

, which the railroad crossed into several times along its route, was also headquartered in Crellin, but closed down in the late 1950s. While the town survives today, very little remains to show that the original lumbering, mining, and railroad operations ever existed. Crellin is located in western Garrett County, just east of the Maryland–

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border. The community is in the valley of the

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and is built into a loop of Snowy Creek where the creek joins the Youghiogheny.

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(Hutton Road) leads east to

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, the Garrett County seat, and northwest to

Corinth, West Virginia Corinth is an unincorporated community and coal town in Preston County, West Virginia, United States. Corinth was originally called Spencer but was changed in 1890 to avoid duplication of names in the state. It is named after the ancient Greek cit ...

. According to the

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, the Crellin CDP has an area of , all of it land.

Demographics

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Census-designated places in Garrett County, Maryland Census-designated places in Maryland Coal towns in Maryland {{GarrettCountyMD-geo-stub