Guardian is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a region that is not governed by a local municipal corporation. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. Most other countries of the world either have ...
in
Webster County,
West Virginia
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, United States. Guardian is located along the
Right Fork Holly River and
West Virginia Route 15
West Virginia Route 15 is an east–west state highway in the central portion of the U.S. state of West Virginia. The western terminus of the route is at West Virginia Route 4 northeast of Sutton, Braxton County. The eastern terminus is at ...
, north-northwest of
Webster Springs. Guardian had a
post office
A post office is a public facility and a retailer that provides mail services, such as accepting letters and parcels, providing post office boxes, and selling postage stamps, packaging, and stationery. Post offices may offer additional ser ...
, which closed on February 1, 1988. The community took its name from the local Guardian Coal and Oil Company. Guardian was previously known as Removal from about the 1880s until 1937 when the post office named changed to Guardian. Guardian was also referred to as Middleport in early postal records. The history of the town is exhaustively set out in a two volume book set (published in 2002 and 2015) known as "Removal Reflections: A History of Guardian/Removal, West Virginia."
References
Unincorporated communities in Webster County, West Virginia
Unincorporated communities in West Virginia
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