Fayetteville
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town in and the county seat of Fayette County, West Virginia
Key facts
- Country
- United States
- State
- West Virginia
- County
- Fayette
- Total
- 5.58 sq mi (14.46 km )
- Land
- 5.57 sq mi (14.43 km )
- Water
- 0.012 sq mi (0.03 km )
- Elevation
- 1,818 ft (554 m)
- Density
- 518.2/sq mi (200.1/km )
- Time zone
- UTC-5 ( Eastern (EST) )
- Summer dst
- UTC-4 (EDT)
- Fips code
- 54-27028
- Website
- Official website
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- county seat
- Named after
- Gilbert du Motier, Marquis de Lafayette
- Official name
- Fayetteville
- Country
- United States
- Located in
- Fayette County
- Population
- 2887
- Area
- 14.176889
- Elevation
- 554
- Body of water
- New River
- Capital of
- Fayette County
- Official website
- fayettevillewv.gov
- Image
- CourtSt FayettevilleWV.jpg
- Households
- 1240
- Dialing code
- 304
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- Commons category
- Fayetteville, West Virginia
- postal code
- 25840
- water as percent of area
- 0.2232
- per capita income
- 27868
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Encyclopedic overview
Fayetteville is a town in and the county seat of Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 2,887 at the 2020 census.
Fayetteville lies adjacent to the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve and is directly south of the New River Gorge Bridge. Fayetteville was listed as one of the 2006 "Top 10 Coolest Small Towns in America" by Budget Travel Magazine, and as "Best River Town 2013" by Blue Ridge Outdoors magazine.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fayetteville” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.