Sugar Valley, Pleasants County, West Virginia

Sugar Valley
Sugar Valley
	Unincorporated community
	Sugar Valley Location within the state of West Virginia Sugar Valley Sugar Valley (the US)
	Coordinates: 39°25′10″N81°5′13″W / 39.41944°N 81.08694°W Coordinates: 39°25′10″N81°5′13″W / 39.41944°N 81.08694°W
Country	United States
State	West Virginia
County	Pleasants
Elevation	614 ft (187 m)
Time zone	Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)
GNIS ID	1555736 [1]

Last updated February 25, 2019

Sugar Valley is an unincorporated community in Pleasants County, West Virginia, United States. The community is located at the confluence of Sugar Creek and Middle Island Creek.^[2]

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.

Pleasants County is a county located in the U.S. state of West Virginia. At the 2010 census, the population was 7,605, making it the third-least populous county in the state. Its county seat is St. Marys. The county was created by the Virginia General Assembly in 1851 and named for US Senator and Virginia Governor James Pleasants, Jr..

West Virginia is a state located in the Appalachian region in the Southern United States and is also considered to be a part of the Middle Atlantic States. It is bordered by Pennsylvania to the north, Maryland to the east and northeast, Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, and Ohio to the northwest. West Virginia is the 41st largest state by area, and is ranked 38th in population. The capital and largest city is Charleston.

The community takes its name from nearby Sugar Creek.^[3]

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References

↑ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Sugar Valley, Pleasants County, West Virginia
↑ The National Map, accessed 2013-12-14
↑ 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. 610.

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[1] U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Sugar Valley, Pleasants County, West Virginia

[2] The National Map, accessed 2013-12-14

[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. 610.

v t e Municipalities and communities of Pleasants County, West Virginia, United States
County seat: St. Marys
Cities	St. Marys	Pleasants County map
Towns	Belmont
Unincorporated communities	Adlai Algeria Arvilla Borland Calcutta Cloverdale Cluster Crisp DeLong Eureka Federal Fern Grape Island Green Run Hebron Horseneck Lytton Newlandsville Pine Grove Point Lookout Poynette Raven Rock Schultz Sugar Valley Twiggs Union Mills Vaucluse Wasp Wiley Willow Island

Sugar Valley
Unincorporated community
Sugar Valley Location within the state of West Virginia Show map of West Virginia Sugar Valley Sugar Valley (the US) Show map of the US
Coordinates: 39°25′10″N81°5′13″W / 39.41944°N 81.08694°W / 39.41944; -81.08694 Coordinates: 39°25′10″N81°5′13″W / 39.41944°N 81.08694°W / 39.41944; -81.08694
Country	United States
State	West Virginia
County	Pleasants
Elevation	614 ft (187 m)
Time zone	Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)
GNIS ID	1555736^[1]