Turkey Gap, West Virginia

Community
Profile

Nearby

Census

Genealogy
Helper

The location of Turkey Gap

Learn About
The Commemorative
Quarter for
West Virginia

Welcome to Turkey Gap ...

Although we found mention of Turkey Gap during our research, we have little information about it.^<1> Given the context of how Turkey Gap was mentioned, we believe that it was a community rather than some type of landmark. We have done a cursory search and if it's a community, we haven't been able to find any evidence that it still exists.

While we are confident that Turkey Gap was located in Mercer County, we don't know its actual location within the county.

We've added Turkey Gap to our Gazetteer with the hope that we can develop more information. We would especially like to find the location of Turkey Gap - knowing its coordinates, we can explore things like its relationship to neighboring communities, nearby cemeteries, etc. If you can help us with Turkey Gap, please Contact Us.

Time Zone: The area where we believe that Turkey Gap might be (or was) located is in the Eastern Time Zone (EST/EDT) and observes daylight saving time

We believe that Turkey Gap would be found within the (304) & (681)^<2> area codes.

Other Roadside Stops ...

Visit our Community Index for West Virginia

About Mercer County

About West Virginia

Off-the-Road Links ...

The official website for State of West Virginia: www.wv.gov/

Footnotes ...

<1>

If we encounter the name of what might be a community, our methodology is to add that name to our Gazetteer. For example, we might find a sentence like "He went south past Turkey Gap and then turned east". While Turkey Gap could be some kind of landmark, we think that it's more likely to be a community. We've added Turkey Gap as a placeholder with the hope that we'll be able to add more information in the future.

Just as a reminder: Our definition of a community is rather broad and includes those places (or areas) where several families lived and had a name which identified that place. For example, you might hear somebody say that they are going over to Miller Creek to see Pete ... Miller Creek is just a gas station and a couple of homes at the crossroads. While it might not be on the map, everybody in the area knows it by that name.

Places of interest include buildings at a crossroad, several families clustered in a hollow or maybe the location of a way station. It also includes places like mines, lumber camps, ferry crossings, etc. The community might still exist, is now gone or only existed for just a short period of time.

Also keep in mind that Turkey Gap could have been on the original document by mistake, misspelled, the original/alternate name of a community that we've listed elsewhere or was placed in the wrong county. Sometimes a post office or train station would have a different name than the community where it's located, so two names might be referring to the same community - we're working to straighten it all out.

- Return to Citation

<2>

Area code (681) is an overlay for area code (304).

- Return to Citation

Community
Profile

Nearby

Census

Summarized

Misc

Other WV
Communities





Home Page	Sitemap	Privacy Statement	Terms of Use	Feedback

Please keep in mind that we can not guarantee the accuracy or timeliness of the information on this website, so use with care. We encourage you to double-check the information that is critical to you.

If you've found an error or have additional information that you would like to share, please don't hesitate to write. Click here to contact us.

This page was last modified: 03 Dec 2018

By John Hall