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Welcome to Crawley ...

Crawley is located in Greenbrier County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Crawley, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1899.

Crawley is 2,410 feet [735 m] above sea level.<2> In other words, the altitude of Crawley is about ½ mile above sea level.

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

Area Codes for Crawley: 304 & 681<3>

Communities Also Named Crawley ...

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

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

Communities near Crawley ...

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

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Crawley ...

Looking for more information about Crawley? 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.

In addition to the Tourism page for Crawley, there are neighboring communities that also have Tourism pages. More information about those communities can be found on our TripAdvisor Page for Crawley.

Adding Crawley to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Crawley 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 Crawley was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<6>

From that list, the Crawley post office opened in 1899.

We also found Crawley on a map titled Rand McNally Map of West Virginia (1911).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Crawley.

Footnotes ...

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

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