Home › West Virginia › Mingo County

Mingo County, West Virginia

Historic newspapers, landmarks, and county history layers for genealogists and local historians.

—newspaper titles

—digitized titles

8historic places

—earliest paper

1895formed

23,568pop. 2020

112cemeteries

—CW battlefields

At a glance

Summary

The National Register of Historic Places includes 8 listed properties in the county, first listed in 1980; 1 is also National Historic Landmark. Most listings are in or near Williamson, New Town, Matewan.

Summary generated automatically from the source data on this page.

Newspapers

Library of Congress

Newspaper directory data for West Virginia is not yet loaded on this site. Browse Mingo titles at the Library of Congress.

National Register of Historic Places

NPS NRHP

4 of 8 listings mapped; some locations are restricted by NPS to protect sensitive sites.

8 listed properties

Property	City	Type	Listed
Coal House	Williamson	Building	1980
Hatfield Cemetery	New Town	Site	1980
Matewan Historic District NHL	Matewan	District	1993
Mountaineer Hotel	Williamson	Building	1997
Price, R. T., House	Williamson	Building	1991
Smith, Elven C., House	Williamson	Building	2002
Williamson Field House	Williamson	Building	2011
Williamson Historic District	Williamson	District	2006

Source: National Park Service, National Register of Historic Places. Property links open NRHP nomination files at the National Archives.

County formation

Newberry AHCB

Mingo was formed in 1895 (1895-01-30) from Logan.

MINGO created from LOGAN.

Source: Newberry Library, Atlas of Historical County Boundaries.

Population by decade

Census

Mingo County population from 1900 to 2020 (Census historical series).

1900	1920	1940	1950	1960	1980	2000	2020
11,359	26,364	40,802	47,409	39,742	37,336	28,253	23,568

Sources: U.S. Census Bureau historical county population (Forstall 1790–1990) and public-domain / CC0 county population series through 2020.

Cemeteries & historical places

USGS GNIS

112 cemeteries and 2 historical populated places (ghost towns / former settlements) recorded in USGS GNIS for this county.

Cemeteries — 80 of 112 listed

Name	Lat	Lon
Aker Cemetery	37.81926	-82.3982
Alexanders Cemetery	37.86232	-82.15958
Baisden Cemetery	37.85038	-82.32098
Baisden Cemetery	37.88676	-82.33626
Brewer Cemetery	37.84843	-82.35653
Brewer Cemetery	37.85843	-82.38126
Brewer Cemetery	37.87899	-82.35403
Browning Cemetery	37.62955	-81.97984
Browning Cemetery	37.6501	-81.83067
Browning Cemetery	37.649	-82.00846
Buchanan Cemetery	37.53038	-81.95234
Chaffin Cemetery	37.83176	-82.38931
Chafin Cemetery	37.62622	-82.08318
Chapman Cemetery	37.59705	-81.91317
Clark Cemetery	37.79454	-82.27875
Clark Cemetery	37.80982	-82.26653
Collins Cemetery	37.79371	-82.2757
Damron Cemetery	37.87954	-82.18903
Davis Cemetery	37.7751	-82.3207
Davis Cemetery	37.78899	-82.31014
Dempsey Cemetery	37.77844	-82.14874
Duty Cemetery	37.68983	-82.09124
Ellis Cemetery	37.64732	-81.90428
Estep Cemetery	37.65732	-82.23236
Estep Cemetery	37.7651	-82.18319
Estep Cemetery	37.77094	-82.1343
Evans Cemetery	37.81702	-82.19334
Evans Cemetery	37.82149	-82.2193
Evans Cemetery	37.84454	-82.32237
Fairview Cemetery	37.67756	-82.30083
Farley Cemetery	37.71177	-82.17958
Farley Cemetery	37.73677	-82.14458
Ferrell Cemetery	37.65427	-82.02374
Ferrell Cemetery	37.80088	-82.29519
Gap Hollow Cemetery	37.81649	-82.22847
Gilman Cemetery	37.82177	-82.18541
Hanna Cemeteries	37.8576	-82.26542
Harden Cemetery	37.80704	-82.27264
Hatfield Cemetery	37.62733	-81.90067
Hatfield Cemetery	37.63872	-81.94095
Hatfield Cemetery	37.63316	-82.09068
Hatfield Cemetery	37.65733	-82.0843
Hatfield Cemetery	37.65927	-82.09707
Hatfield Cemetery	37.66372	-82.10291
Hensley Cemetery	37.76565	-82.32959
Hensley Cemetery	37.77038	-82.32375
Hodges Cemetery	37.89843	-82.32348
Italy Hollow Cemetery	37.57352	-82.09828
Kennedy Cemetery	37.63205	-82.00151
Kirk Cemetery	37.92926	-82.2657
Kirk Cemetery	37.93787	-82.27792
Lackey Cemetery	37.85593	-82.24042
Lower Curry Cemetery	37.73816	-82.17319
Mahon Cemetery	37.69927	-82.11319
Marcum Cemetery	37.70399	-82.1868
Marcum Cemetery	37.79899	-82.34098
Marcum Cemetery	37.84788	-82.28681
Marcum Cemetery	37.8726	-82.1368
Marcum Cemetery	37.92065	-82.25459
Maynard Cemetery	37.77788	-82.1768
McCloud Cemetery	37.92315	-82.19542
Meade Cemetery	37.77704	-82.31209
Meade Cemetery	37.86037	-82.30208
Meade and Messer Cemetery	37.8876	-82.33209
Meador Cemetery	37.62538	-82.05152
Messer Cemetery	37.88121	-82.29903
Messer Cemetery	37.89287	-82.30764
Mountain View Memory Gardens	37.76538	-82.33209
Mounts Cemeteries	37.77538	-82.22069
Mounts Cemetery	37.60928	-81.90956
Murphy Cemetery	37.81093	-82.39931
Musick Cemetery	37.65455	-82.06374
Musick Cemetery	37.66788	-82.10596
Newsome Cemetery	37.81787	-82.19319
Newsome Cemetery	37.84454	-82.32125
Newsome Cemetery	37.84677	-82.17458
Oak Log Cemetery	37.5692	-81.8723
Ooten Cemetery	37.77038	-82.19152
Ooten Cemetery	37.77121	-82.11791
Perry Cemetery	37.89954	-82.30459

Historical populated places — 2 of 2

Name	Lat	Lon
Horsepen	37.62011	-81.89179
New Thacker	37.57094	-82.08957

Source: USGS Geographic Names Information System (public domain). Cemeteries from the 2021 NationalFile archive; historical places from GNIS HistoricalFeatures topical extract.

Historical markers

HMdb link

Marker text and photos from the Historical Marker Database (HMdb) are not embedded here. HMdb allows non-commercial reuse with attribution, but commercial/compensated use needs written permission; this is a commercial site, so we only link out.

Search HMdb for Mingo County, West Virginia

Terms: hmdb.org/copyright.asp. Linking is encouraged by HMdb.