Mitchell Heights, West Virginia
Mitchell Heights is a town in Logan County, West Virginia, Logan County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 315 at the 2020 United States Census, 2020 census. The town was named for an early farm on which it was established. Geography Mitchell Heights is located at (37.906889, -81.982981). The town is situated along the west bank of the Guyandotte River in north-central Logan County. Chief Logan State Park borders the town to the west. The community of Henlawson, West Virginia, Henlawson lies to the south, and Pecks Mill, West Virginia, Pecks Mill lies to the north. West Virginia Route 10 traverses Mitchell Heights, connecting the town with Chapmanville, West Virginia, Chapmanville to the north and Logan, West Virginia, Logan to the south. According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of , all land. Demographics 2010 census At the 2010 United States Census, 2010 census there were 323 people, 143 households, and 101 families living ...
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Town
A town is a human settlement. Towns are generally larger than villages and smaller than cities, though the criteria to distinguish between them vary considerably in different parts of the world. Origin and use The word "town" shares an origin with the German word , the Dutch word , and the Old Norse . The original Proto-Germanic word, *''tūnan'', is thought to be an early borrowing from Proto-Celtic *''dūnom'' (cf. Old Irish , Welsh ). The original sense of the word in both Germanic and Celtic was that of a fortress or an enclosure. Cognates of ''town'' in many modern Germanic languages designate a fence or a hedge. In English and Dutch, the meaning of the word took on the sense of the space which these fences enclosed, and through which a track must run. In England, a town was a small community that could not afford or was not allowed to build walls or other larger fortifications, and built a palisade or stockade instead. In the Netherlands, this space was a garden, ...
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