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Welcome to Burnt House ...

Burnt House is located in Ritchie County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Burnt House, you might consider that their post office opened in 1875.

Burnt House is 810 feet [247 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Burnt House: 304 & 681<3>

Communities near Burnt House ...

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

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Burnt House ...

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

Adding Burnt House to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Burnt House 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 Burnt House was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Burnt House post office opened in 1875. The Burnt House post office closed in 1986.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Burnt House.

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of West Virginia's counties, including Ritchie, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Burnt House - 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 Burnt House area will be assigned with one of these codes: 304 or 681. As a result, placing a call in the Burnt House 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>A copy of the Blevins & Helbock Post Office list with background information can be found at:

      https://cblevins.github.io/us-post-offices/data-biography/