Yukon 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 ...

on Dry Fork in McDowell County,

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, United States. It lies at the intersection of West Virginia State Routes 16 and 83. According to the

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, Yukon has also been known throughout its history as Susanna and Watson. Yukon 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 and the

Dry Fork (Tug Fork tributary) The Dry Fork is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map , accessed June 13, 2011 tributary of the Tug Fork, belonging to the Ohio River watershed. The river is located in McDowell ...

river.

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