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Wyoming County

Wyoming County, with its rugged terrain bisected by the Guyandotte River, is located in the heart of West Virginia’s southern coal and natural gas producing region.

Mapped Points

• Pineville

  Pineville became county seat in 1907. Pineville is home to Castle Rock, a towering sandstone formation for which Rockcastle Creek is named.
  

  

• Glen Rogers

  A methane gas explosion November 6, 1923, inside the ill-fated Glen Rogers coal mine killed 27 men, the worst accident of any kind in Wyoming County history.

• Oceana

  Oceana, established in 1797 by early settler and Revolutionary War veteran John Cooke, was the first seat of government in Wyoming County.

• Itmann

  The company town of Itmann was built in 1916. The huge Pocahontas Fuel Company store at Itmann displays perhaps West Virginia’s most spectacular surviving coalfields architecture.

• Mullens

  Mullens is the county’s most populated town.

• Twin Falls State Park

  Twin Falls Resort State Park is named for the two waterfalls, Foley Falls and Black Fork Falls, located in the park and within a quarter mile of each other.
  

  

• Guyandotte River

  The Guyandotte River is formed by the junction of Winding Gulf and Stonecoal creeks in Raleigh County and flows in a northwesterly direction to its confluence with the Ohio River at Huntington.

• R.D. Bailey Lake

  R.D. Bailey Lake provides flood protection for the lower Guyandotte River basin, including the city of Huntington. The dam was the first rock-fill dam developed by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers with a concrete face, a complex and difficult job.
  

  

• Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College

  Southern West Virginia Community and Technical College has a campus in Saulsville.