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Welcome to Willow Island ...

Willow Island is located in Pleasants County<1>.

While we don't have a date for the founding of Willow Island, you might consider that their post office opened in 1849.

A typical abbreviation for Willow Island: Willow Is. (in Canada, 'Isld.' is the more common abbreviation.)

Willow Island is 630 feet [192 m] above sea level.<2>.

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

Area Codes for Willow Island: 304 & 681<3>

Communities Also Named Willow Island ...

Using our Gazetteer, we found another community named Willow Island - it's located in Nebraska.

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

Communities near Willow Island ...

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

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

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

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

TripAdvisor Tourism Pages for Willow Island ...

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

Adding Willow Island to Our Gazetteer ...

We originally found mention of Willow Island 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 (so far) for Willow Island was in the document titled List of Post Offices from Cameron Blevins and Richard Helbock.<5>

From that list, the Willow Island post office opened in 1849. The Willow Island post office closed in 1991.

For more details, see References and Mentions for Willow Island.

Footnotes ...

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

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