Falls, West Virginia | |
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Unincorporated community | |
Coordinates: 39°10′30″N79°7′8″W / 39.17500°N 79.11889°W Coordinates: 39°10′30″N79°7′8″W / 39.17500°N 79.11889°W | |
Country | United States |
State | West Virginia |
County | Grant |
Elevation | 1,253 ft (382 m) |
Time zone | Eastern (EST) (UTC-5) |
• Summer (DST) | EDT (UTC-4) |
GNIS feature ID | 1549678 [1] |
Falls is an unincorporated community in Grant County, West Virginia, United States. Its post office [2] is closed.
In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not governed by a local municipal corporation; similarly an unincorporated community is a settlement that is not governed by its own local municipal corporation, but rather is administered as part of larger administrative divisions, such as a township, parish, borough, county, city, canton, state, province or country. Occasionally, municipalities dissolve or disincorporate, which may happen if they become fiscally insolvent, and services become the responsibility of a higher administration. Widespread unincorporated communities and areas are a distinguishing feature of the United States and Canada. In most other countries of the world, there are either no unincorporated areas at all, or these are very rare; typically remote, outlying, sparsely populated or uninhabited areas.
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