Tallmansville, West Virginia
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Tallmansville 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 ...
in Upshur County,
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, United States. The ZIP code of Tallmansville is 26237; its
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had a population of 418 at the 2000 census.Download Zip Code for 26237
/ref> The community of Tallmansville received its name, honoring their first postmaster Benjamin Tallman, in 1869. According to the
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, the town has also had the
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s Stroder and Strader Station in the past.


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Unincorporated communities in Upshur County, West Virginia Unincorporated communities in West Virginia {{UpshurCountyWV-geo-stub