Category:Coal Fields
From West Virginia (WV) Cyclopedia
The coal producing areas of West Virginia have been traditionally defined as fields, each field corresponding to a given geographical location or region of the state.
Our readers should note that a coal field is a geographical label, not necessarily related to geological terms used to describe coal, such as seam, coalbed, or series. For example, there are several Pocahontas coal seams found in West Virginia -- Pocahontas No. 6, Pocahontas No. 4 and Pocahontas No. 3 -- which can be found in areas outside the Pocahontas Coal Field.
There are varied opinions on the number of coal fields in West Virginia, but for our purposes, we will define only ten coal fields, which was number of fields used throughout the history of the West Virginia coal industry.
The coal producing regions of the entire state often were, and still are, referred to as the West Virginia Coal Fields. In addition, the coal producing lands lying south of the Kanawha and New River were referred to as the Southern West Virginia Coal Fields, since at least the early-1900's. See, for example, this early advertisement marketing coal from the mines of Southern West Virginia (http://scriptorium.lib.duke.edu/eaa/ephemera/A04/A0451/A0451-72dpi.html).
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