West Virginia coal operators built small, company-owned towns for their miners to live in. The coal towns were almost always unincorporated; there were no elected officials, no independent police ...

West Virginia coal operators built small, company-owned towns for their miners to live in. The coal towns were almost always unincorporated; there were no elected officials, no independent police ...

This unincorporated ... West Virginia is experiencing in the third decade of the 21st century what Iowa experienced in the last decade of the 20th century, when small towns shrunk, a farm-credit ...

States such as West Virginia were left limping after mines closed, jobs evaporated, people fled, and towns went broke. However, a new generation of West Virginians began trying to rebuild the ...

The United States Geological Survey lists about a dozen unincorporated communities ... if even that. West Virginia and Utah both host towns named “Hurricane” that survive to this day, however.