Black Wolf is an
unincorporated community
An unincorporated area is a parcel of land that is not governed by a local general-purpose municipal corporation. (At p. 178.) They may be governed or serviced by an encompassing unit (such as a county) or another branch of the state (such as th ...
located in
McDowell 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 ...
, United States. Black Wolf lies along the
Norfolk and Western Railroad
The Norfolk and Western Railway , commonly called the N&W, was a US class I railroad, formed by more than 200 railroad mergers between 1838 and 1982. It was headquartered in Roanoke, Virginia, for most of its existence. Its motto was "Precisio ...
on the
Tug Fork River
The Tug Fork is a tributary of the Big Sandy River, long,U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map accessed June 13, 2011 in southwestern West Virginia, southwestern Virginia, and easter ...
.
See also
*
List of ghost towns in West Virginia
There are many ghost towns in West Virginia, some of which were created and abandoned as part of the "boom and bust" economy of coal mining industry.
* Algoma, in McDowell County
* Ames, in Fayette County
* Bachman, in Fayette County
* ...
References
Unincorporated communities in McDowell County, West Virginia
Unincorporated communities in West Virginia
West Virginia populated places on the Tug Fork
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