Fire Creek Coal

From West Virginia (WV) Cyclopedia

Among the most valuable coal seams in the New River Gorge region, the Fire Creek Coal (also known as the Quinnimont Coal) was first mined commercially at Quinnimont, on the New River, by the Quinnimont Coal & Coke Co. The enterprise was short lived as a result of the limited extent of the seams outcrop there, located high on the rim of the gorge.

A mine was opened some years later in a seam at the head of Fire Creek that was designated the "Fire Creek Coal." State geologists later determined it to be the Quinnimont bed, but "the trade name...had become so firmly established as to supplant the former in spite of the rules of geologic nomenclature favoring the former designation."