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Welcome to Valley Furnace ...

Valley Furnace is located in Barbour County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Valley Furnace, you might consider that their post office opened  in 1867.

Valley Furnace is 1,460 feet [445 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Valley Furnace: 304 & 681<3>

Communities Also Named Valley Furnace ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Valley Furnace - it's located in Pennsylvania.

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

Communities near Valley Furnace ...

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

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Valley Furnace ...

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

Adding Valley Furnace to Our Gazetteer ...

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

X2X - From that list, the Valley Furnace post office opened in 1867.

We also found Valley Furnace in the book titled List of Post Offices in the United States (1870).

For more details, see References and Mentions for Valley Furnace.

Unfortunately, we don't know of a website for Valley Furnace. If you can help, please contact us through our Feedback Page.

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

Footnotes ...

<1>If you're interested in how the shape of West Virginia's counties, including Barbour, have changed over time, we recommend the Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.
<2>The elevation is an estimate for the area around Valley Furnace - 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 Valley Furnace area will be assigned with one of these codes: 304 or 681. As a result, placing a call in the Valley Furnace 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/




 

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