Verdunville 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 ...

and

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(CDP) in Logan County,

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, United States. It is west of Logan, the

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. Verdunville has a

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with ZIP code 25649. The Verdunville CDP includes the neighboring community of Shegon. As of the 2020 census, the total CDP population was 491 (down from 687 at the 2010 census). The community's name commemorates the

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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

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watershed. Mud Fork Road runs up the valley from Mount Gay in the east (near Logan), through Verdunville and Shegon to the northwest, and leads eventually to Dingess in Mingo County. 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 north of the Mud Fork valley. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, 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 {{LoganCountyWV-geo-stub