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Welcome to Burning Springs ...

Burning Springs is located in Wirt County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Burning Springs, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1870.

A typical abbreviation for Burning Springs: Burning Spgs. (or less commonly used: Burning Spngs. or Burning Sprngs.)

Burning Springs is 640 feet [195 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Burning Springs: 304 & 681<3>

Communities Also Named Burning Springs ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are two West Virginia communities named Burning Springs: This one is located in Wirt County and the other is located in Kanawha County.

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

Communities near Burning Springs ...

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

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 Burning Springs. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Burning Springs.

Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Burning Springs. 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 Burning Springs.

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Burning Springs ...

Looking for more information about Burning Springs? 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 Burning Springs, there are neighboring communities that do have Tourism pages. A map of those communities can be found with our TripAdvisor Page for Burning Springs.

Adding Burning Springs to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Burning Springs 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 for Burning Springs was in the book titled List of Post Offices in the United States (1870).

We also found Burning Springs in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Burning Springs.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of West Virginia's counties, including Wirt, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Burning Springs - it will be higher in some places and lower in others.
<3>When there's a risk of an area code running out of phone numbers, an 'Overlay Area Code' is created that has the same geographic boundaries as the existing area code. In this case, the 304 code has been Overlayed with the 681 area code. New phone numbers in the Burning Springs area will be assigned with one of these codes: 304 or 681. As a result, placing a call in the Burning Springs area will require 10-digit dialing (where you enter both the area code and then the phone number).
<4>While we're fans and frequent users of TripAdvisor, you should know that we're also members of the TripAdvisor affiliate program.
<5>The location has been supplied by the Geographic Names Information System - which is maintained by the U.S. Geological Survey (USGS). While these values should be definitive, we found that accuracy can vary and you should double-check the location if accuracy is required.
<6>An 'estimated' location is one where we have been given GPS coordinates, but are unable to verify the accuracy of those coordinates. That said, we have some confidence that we have placed the marker near the actual location. A typical reason for being unable to verify a location is that it might be on private property or maybe historic and gone without an obvious trace.