Verdunville is an
unincorporated community
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and
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 count ...
(CDP) in
Logan County Logan County is the name of ten current counties and one former county in the United States:
* Logan County, Arkansas
* Logan County, Colorado
* Logan County, Idaho (1889–1895)
* Logan County, Illinois
* Logan County, Kansas
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,
West Virginia
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, United States. It is west of
Logan, the
county seat
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. Verdunville has a
post office
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with
ZIP code 25649. The Verdunville CDP includes the neighboring community of
Shegon. As of the
2010 census, the total CDP population was 687.
The community's name commemorates the
Battle of Verdun
The Battle of Verdun (french: Bataille de Verdun ; german: Schlacht um Verdun ) was fought from 21 February to 18 December 1916 on the Western Front in France. The battle was the longest of the First World War and took place on the hills north ...
.
Geography
Verdunville is in west-central Logan County, in the valley of the Mud Fork, an east-flowing tributary of
Island Creek and part of the
Guyandotte River
The Guyandotte River is a tributary of the Ohio River, approximately 166 mi (267 km) long, in southwestern West Virginia in the United States. It was named after the French term for the Wendat Native Americans. It drains an area of t ...
watershed. Mud Fork Road runs up the valley from
Mount Gay
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in the east (near Logan), through Verdunville and Shegon to the northwest, and leads eventually to
Dingess in
Mingo County
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.
U.S. Route 119, a four-lane expressway, forms the eastern edge of the Verdunville CDP, with the closest access from an interchange with
West Virginia Route 73
West Virginia Route 73 is an east–west state highway located in the Logan, West Virginia area. The western terminus of the route is at an interchange with U.S. Route 119 a half-mile north of Verdunville and three miles (5 km) west of Loga ...
north of the Mud Fork valley.
According to the
U.S. Census Bureau
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, the Verdunville CDP has a total area of , of which , or 0.07%, are water.
References
Census-designated places in Logan County, West Virginia
Census-designated places in West Virginia
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