Secondcreek, West Virginia

Secondcreek, West Virginia
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 37°39′55″N80°27′14″W / 37.66528°N 80.45389°W / 37.66528; -80.45389
Country	United States
State	West Virginia
County	Monroe
Elevation	1,873 ft (571 m)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP code	24974
Area codes	304 & 681
GNIS feature ID	1555586 [1]

Secondcreek is an unincorporated community in Monroe County, West Virginia, United States. Secondcreek is northeast of Union. The ZIP code for Secondcreek is 24974; however the post office was closed in 2010. ^[2]

The community was named after nearby Second Creek. ^[3]

Resource and Heritage

Second Creek is an excellent trout stream although the native brook trout is in greatly reduced numbers compared to the brown trout and rainbow trout recently introduced. Rodgers Mill is a fly fishing only site. Second Creek is stocked every April. Fly anglers can access the waters using County Route 219/3 and County Route 3/7 from US Route 219.

At one time in its history, more than twenty mills for powder, grist, lumbering and finishing were on this creek.

Reed's Mill and the Nickell Homestead and Mill are listed on the National Register of Historic Places. ^[4]

References

1. "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. October 25, 2007. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
2. ZIP Code Lookup
3. Kenny, Hamill (1945). West Virginia Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning, Including the Nomenclature of the Streams and Mountains. Piedmont, WV: The Place Name Press. p. 561.
4. "National Register Information System". National Register of Historic Places . National Park Service. July 9, 2010.

External links

• Second Creek is directly served by its watershed^{[ clarification needed ]}, "Friends of the Second Creek"
• Second Creek is a tributary of the Greenbrier River. Its watershed^{[ clarification needed ]} is called the Greenbrier River Watershed Association . Thanks to the contribution of waterbodys like Second Creek, the Greenbrier comprises about 30% of the New River's volume.
• The Greenbrier River is a major tributary for the New River watershed.