Mount Carbon is a

census-designated place A census-designated place (CDP) is a Place (United States Census Bureau), concentration of population defined by the United States Census Bureau for statistical purposes only. CDPs have been used in each decennial census since 1980 as the counte ...

(CDP) in Fayette County,

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, United States. Mount Carbon is located along

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, southeast of Montgomery, on the south bank of the

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at the mouth of Armstrong Creek. Mount Carbon has a

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with ZIP code 25139. As of the 2020 census, its population was 341 (down from 428 at the 2010 census).

Namesake

Mount Carbon was named for nearby coal deposits, a

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References

Census-designated places in Fayette County, West Virginia Census-designated places in West Virginia Populated places on the Kanawha River {{FayetteCountyWV-geo-stub