Names of WV Coal Seams
From West Virginia (WV) Cyclopedia
A list of names in common use within the West Virginia coal industry, circa 1910, and the counties in which the seam (or vein) was being mined.
No. 1 or Eagle: Fayette and Kanawha
No. 2 Gas or Kanawha: Boone, Fayette, Kanawha, Logan, and Mingo
No. 5 or Splint: Fayette, Kanawha, and Mason
No. 6: Mingo
Alma: Mingo
Ansted: Fayette
Bakerstown: Mineral
Barton: Upshur
Beckley: Raleigh
Bellmont: Kanawha
Belmont Gas: Kanawha
Belmont Splint: Kanawha
Black Band: Boone and Kanawha
Cabin Creek Gas: Kanawha
Cannel: Boone
Carbon Splint: Kanawha
Cedar Grove: Kanawha and Mingo
Coalburg: Clay, Kanawha, Mingo, and Nicholas
Davis: Grant
Davy: McDowell
Draper: Logan
Eagle: Fayette and Kanawha
East Lynn: Barbour, Kanawha, Mineral, and Preston
Fire Creek: Fayette and Raleigh
Freeeport: Barbour, Kanawha, Mineral, and Preston
George Creek: Putnam
Glen Alum: Mingo
Hampshire: Mineral
Island Creek: Logan
Kanawha: Boone, Fayette, Kanawha, Logan, and Mingo
Kittanning: Mineral and Randolph
Lewiston: Kanawha
Lower Kittanning: Barbour, Grant, Kanawha, Mineral, Randolph, and Tucker
Mahoning: Hancock and Taylor
Masontown: Upshur
Mecca Gas: Fayette
New Creek: Mineral
New River: Fayette
Nuttall: Fayette, McDowell, Nicholas, and Raleigh
Peerless: Kanawha
Pittsburg: Barbour, Braxton, Brooke, Gilmer, Harrison, Lewis, Marion, Mason, Mineral, Monongalia, Ohio, Putnam, Taylor, and Upshur
Pocahontas No. 3 and 4: Mercer and McDowell
Pocahontas No. 5, 6, and 7: McDowell
Pomeroy: Mason
Powellton: Fayette, Kanawha, and Mingo
Queen Shoals: Clay and Kanawha
Raymond: Putnam
Red Ash: Fayette
Red Jacket: Mingo
Redstone: Barbour, Harrison, and Upshur
Sewell: Fayette, McDowell, Nicholas, and Raleigh
Sewickley: Marion
Six Foot: Kanawha
Smithing: McDowell
Splint: Fayette, Kanawha, and Mason
Stockton: Logan
Stone Branch: Logan
Thacker: Mingo
Tyson: Mineral
Upper Freeport: Barbour, Grant, Mineral, Monongalia, Preston, Randolph, Taylor, and Tucker
Upper Kittanning: Mineral
War Creek: McDowell
War Eagle, No. 1 and 2: McDowell
Warfield: Mingo
Welch: McDowell
Winifrede: Clay, Kanawha, Lincoln, Logan, and Mingo
