Welcome to Tway ...

Tway is located in Harlan County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Tway, you might consider that their post office opened in 1949.

Tway is 1,310 feet [399 m] above sea level.<2>.

Time Zone: Tway lies in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

Area Code for Tway: 606

Communities Also Named Tway ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Tway - it's located in Saskatchewan.

For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Tway.

Communities near Tway ...

We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Tway.

• Alanthus Hill
  (18 miles [29 km] to the south)
  • Alanthus Hill is located in Hancock County (TN)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Alanthus Hill
  • Estimated population in 2014: 2,498 people
• Pennington Gap
  (16 miles [25.7 km] to the east)
  • Pennington Gap is located in Lee County (VA)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Pennington Gap
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 1,708 people
• Jonesville
  (14 miles [22.5 km] to the southeast)
  • Jonesville is located in Lee County (VA)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Jonesville
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 920 people
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Jonesville <3>
• Evarts
  (7 miles [11.3 km] to the east)
  • Evarts is located in Harlan County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Evarts
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 792 people
  • Jump to TripAdvisor's Tourism page for Evarts <3>
• Wallins Creek
  (5 miles [8 km] to the west)
  • Wallins Creek is located in Harlan County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Wallins Creek
  • Estimated population in 2016: 146 people
• Saint Charles
  (14 miles [22.5 km] to the east)
  • Saint Charles is located in Lee County (VA)
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Saint Charles
  • Population from the 2020 Census: 109 people
• Ages
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the northeast)
  • Ages is located in Harlan County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Ages
• Bobs Creek
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the southeast)
  • Bobs Creek is located in Harlan County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Bobs Creek
• Rosspoint
  (4 miles [6.4 km] to the north)
  • Rosspoint is located in Harlan County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Rosspoint
• Cawood
  (5 miles [8 km] to the southeast)
  • Cawood is located in Harlan County
  • Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Cawood

To Help With Your Genealogy Research ...

We have a couple of sections for those tracing their genealogy.

We created a list of cemeteries that are in the area around Tway. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Tway.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Tway. Our list includes information such as whether the 1895 community had a post office or railroad service. See our List of 1890's Communities around Tway.

We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Tway. See our Newspapers Page for Tway.

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Tway ...

Looking for more information about Tway? A wonderful source is the TripAdvisor website. We always start with the TripAdvisor Tourism page, where you can read an overview with links that will help you find lodging, restaurants and attractions.

While we are unaware of a Tourism page that is specific to Tway, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Tway.

Adding Tway to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Tway in both the FIPS-55 and the GNIS. For more information, see the FIPS and GNIS Codes sections on our Miscellaneous Page.

From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found (so far) for Tway was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<4>

From that list, the Tway post office opened in 1949. The Tway post office closed in 1957.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Tway.