Census Data for Peters Junction
As far as we can tell, Peters Junction<1> has not been included in past Census counts, so there is no population information for this community.
While we don't have census information for Peters Junction, you might be interested in some nearby communities where we do:
- Ansted
(6 miles [9.7 km] to the southwest)
- Gauley Bridge
(9 miles [14.5 km] to the southwest)
- Summersville
(11 miles [17.7 km] to the east)
- Fayetteville
(12 miles [19.3 km] to the south)
- Smithers
(14 miles [22.5 km] to the west)
- Montgomery
(15 miles [24.1 km] to the west)
- Clay
(16 miles [25.7 km] to the north)
- Handley
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the west)
- Handley is located in Kanawha County
- Jump to our Gazetteer entry for Handley
- Oak Hill
(17 miles [27.4 km] to the south)
- Pratt
(18 miles [29 km] to the west)
- Pratt is located in Kanawha County
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- Thurmond
(18 miles [29 km] to the south)
- Glasgow
(20 miles [32.2 km] to the west)
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(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
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- East Bank
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the west)
- East Bank is located in Kanawha County
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- Quinwood
(21 miles [33.8 km] to the southeast)
- Quinwood is located in Greenbrier County
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Nicholas County ...
Peters Junction is located in Nicholas County<3>.
For more information, please visit our Census Page for Nicholas County.
Miscellaneous Information for Peters Junction ...
The Federal government has assigned various identifying codes to each community, county and state. At one time or another, the US Census Bureau has used one (or more) of the following identifiers when referring to either Nicholas County or the community of Peters Junction:
- The GNIS Codes ...
- The current system of identification is called the Geographic Names Information System (GNIS). The following GNIS codes relate to Peters Junction:
- GNIS ID for Peters Junction: 1555329
- GNIS ID for Nicholas County: 1550040
- GNIS ID for State of West Virginia: 1779805
- Misc. Census Codes ...
- Peters Junction is located in Census Region #3 (the South Region) and Division #5 (the South Atlantic Division).
For more information about the various Federal identification codes, please visit our Misc Page for Peters Junction.
Footnotes ...
| <1> | It's a common practice for mapmakers to remove the apostrophe from possessive names. So Peters Junction may originally have been Peter's Junction. Sometimes the trailing 's' might be dropped altogether, in which case Peters Junction might be written as Peter Junction. For more information, please visit our Genealogy Helper Page for Peters Junction. |
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| <3> | If you're interested in how the shape of West Virginia's counties, including Nicholas, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries. |