300px, Road sign indicating the northern boundary of Lavalette along West Virginia Route 152.
Lavalette is a
census-designated place
A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only.
CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...
(CDP) in
Wayne County,
West Virginia
West Virginia is a mountainous U.S. state, state in the Southern United States, Southern and Mid-Atlantic (United States), Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.The United States Census Bureau, Census Bureau and the Association of American ...
, in the United States. As of the
2020 census, its population was 932 (down from 1,073 at the
2010 census).
Lavalette is located at the intersection of
West Virginia Route 152 and
West Virginia Route 75, eight miles south of
Huntington. The town is near
Beech Fork Lake
Beech Fork Lake is a reservoir located near Lavalette in Wayne County, West Virginia, United States. Beech Fork Lake is also partly located in neighboring Cabell County. Millers Fork and Stowers Branch join Beech Fork with their own river vall ...
, a popular location for boating and fishing, and
Twelvepole Creek. Lavalette was named after Lavalette Miller, the daughter of a Norfolk & Western Railway official.
Lavalette is a part of the
Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH, Metropolitan Statistical Area. As of the 2010 census, the MSA had a population of 287,702.
Lavalette has two 18-hole public golf courses - Sugarwood Golf Club and Creekside Golf Course. Lavalette also has a paid EMS ambulance service with two emergency response squads and one transport unit. The 35 member volunteer fire department has four engine companies, a rescue boat, and a mobile disaster response trailer.
References
Census-designated places in Wayne County, West Virginia
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