Vallscreek 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 McDowell County,

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, United States. Vallscreek is south-southeast of

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. It was also known as Hartwell. The community takes its name from nearby Vall Creek. The town is on the

Norfolk Southern Railway The Norfolk Southern Railway is a Class I freight railroad operating in the Eastern United States. Headquartered in Atlanta, the company was formed in 1982 with the merger of the Norfolk and Western Railway and Southern Railway. The comp ...

(former

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) network.

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Unincorporated communities in McDowell County, West Virginia Unincorporated communities in West Virginia Coal towns in West Virginia {{McDowellCountyWV-geo-stub