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Welcome to Carney ...So far, we found very little information about Carney. The little that we've found leads us believe that the community is historic.<1> We've added Carney to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. If you can help us with Carney, please Contact Us. Carney would have been located within present day Kanawha County<2>. The location of Carney has been provided by the Geographic Names Information System (ie- the GNIS).<3> While we don't have a date for the founding of Carney, you might consider that their post office opened in 1889. While the community is gone, the present day location for Carney is 670 feet [204 m] above sea level.<4>. Time Zone: The area where Carney was located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time If Carney still existed, it would have been in the (304) & (681)<5> area codes. Communities Also Named Carney ...Using our Gazetteer, we found that there are 13 communities that are also named Carney - they are located in Alabama, Iowa (2), Kansas (2), Louisiana, Maryland, Michigan, Montana, North Carolina, Oklahoma and Pennsylvania (2). For more information, see our Tidbits & Trivia Page for Carney. Communities near Carney ...We have created a list of 10 communities that are near Carney.
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 Carney. Our list includes the location of those cemeteries and we provide an overhead view. See our Cemetery List for Carney. Using the information from an 1895 Atlas, we've created a list of communities that were in the area of Carney. 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 Carney. We also have a detailed list of newspapers that have been published in the area around Carney. See our Newspapers Page for Carney. Adding Carney to Our Gazetteer ...We originally found mention of Carney in the GNIS. For more information, see the Referenced GNIS Codes section on our Miscellaneous Page. From our notes, the earliest published mention we've found for Carney was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<7> We also found Carney in the book titled Business Atlas and Shippers' Guide (1895). For more details, see References and Mentions for Carney. Off-the-Road Links ...The official website for Kanawha County: www.kanawha.us/ The official website for State of West Virginia: https://www.wv.gov/ Footnotes ...
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