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Century West Virginia Map

Explore Century, West Virginia, with this interactive street and satellite map.

This page also offers TOPO MAPS — the official USGS topographic sheets — plus USGS aerial imagery, a labelled USNG grid overlay, a distance and bearing tool, and a GPS grid-reference readout. See How to Use This Map below.

Interactive Map of Century, West Virginia

How to Use This Century, West Virginia Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Century, West Virginia. Use the Map and Satellite buttons above to switch between street map and aerial imagery views. Use the + and − buttons to zoom in or out, or scroll your mouse wheel while holding the Control key to zoom. On a touchscreen, use a two-finger pinch gesture. Drag the map to pan to any area of West Virginia or beyond.

Click ⛶ Fullscreen to expand the map to fill your screen. To return to the normal page view, press the Escape key, click the ✕ Exit Fullscreen button that appears above the map, or on a mobile device tap the back button (Android) or the close icon (iOS).

TOPO MAPS — NEW. Click the green 🔍 Search Maps button below the map to open a second map with a Base map row offering three choices. OSM is the standard OpenStreetMap street map. Topo shows the official USGS topographic maps from The National Map — contours, hydrography, land cover and shaded relief, the same mapping used for hiking, hunting and back-country navigation in the Adirondacks, the Catskills and the Finger Lakes. Imagery shows USGS aerial photography, mostly 1-metre NAIP. The search box finds any US town, county or landmark by name, so you are not limited to Century.

Reading the map like a paper quad. Click Grid to overlay the U.S. National Grid (USNG), labelled along the edges exactly as a printed topographic sheet is — at normal zoom the squares are one kilometre across, so you can read a six-figure grid reference by eye and judge distance directly off the map. Click Measure, then tap two points, to get the distance between them together with the grid bearing in degrees and mils, the true bearing, and the magnetic bearing to set on a compass.

Click 📍 My position to take a single GPS reading from your device. It marks where you are and reports your position as a USNG grid reference as well as plain latitude and longitude — USNG being the format FEMA and US search and rescue teams work from — with a Copy position button so you can paste it straight into a text message. It takes one reading and stops, rather than tracking continuously, to conserve your battery. Note that map tiles need cell coverage, but a GPS reading does not — your coordinates stay correct even where the map itself cannot load.

City	Century
State	West Virginia (WV)
County	Barbour County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	39.099818
Longitude	-80.188695
Population	111
Density	327.2 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	26238
Area Code	304
County Seat	Philippi
School District	Barbour County School District

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About Century, West Virginia

Century is a locality in Barbour County, West Virginia, United States. It is a small community with a population of 111. The population density is 327.2 people per km². Century is located at 39.0998°N, 80.1887°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 26238.

Century clings to the damp, sloping earth where the narrow channel of Big Run carves a jagged seam through the deep woodland. It lies 15.0 miles southeast of Clarksburg, WV (from Clarksburg, WV: bearing 146°T), and is situated 7.7 miles north-northeast of Buckhannon. The landscape rises in heavy, tiered shoulders of Appalachian hardwood, creating a horizon that feels both immense and intimate, as if the sky were merely a lid pressed tight against the green, oxygen-thick hollows. Light here does not so much shine as it strains through the canopy, catching the amber silt in the creek bed and turning the late-afternoon shadows into long, bruised ribbons of violet and charcoal. Even when the air turns sharp and thin, the land retains a heavy, loam-scented stillness, a physical weight that anchors the eye to the persistent, slow-moving pulse of the water below.

Century carries the quiet gravity of a place defined by the long, rhythmic labor of the earth’s own marrow. The history of the locality remains tethered to the extraction of coal, a legacy that lingers in the weathered geometry of the buildings and the stubborn, resilient character of those who remain. While the industrial hum has quieted, the presence of the past stays etched into the very grain of the terrain, visible in the way the local economy has shifted toward a slower, more deliberate stewardship of the woods and fields. Visitors might find their way toward the quiet shade of Pringle Tree Park, or look toward the distant, hazy blue of the Appalachian Mountains, but the truest sense of the locality resides in the daily, unadorned work of maintaining a life in the shadow of the hills. Despite the isolation, there is a distinct, almost defiant independence here, a refusal to be anything other than what the rugged topography insists upon.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Maniac Mountain (Attraction) — 2.8 mi, 159° S
Audra State Park (State Park) — 7.2 mi, 125° SE
Memorial Park (Local Park) — 7.4 mi, 066° NE
Buckhannon Mural (Public Artwork) — 7.7 mi, 198° S
Upshur War Monument (Monument) — 7.7 mi, 197° S
Latham House - Historical Renovation (Historic Ruins) — 7.8 mi, 196° S
The Battle of Philippi (Registered Battlefield) — 8.6 mi, 066° NE
Covered Bridge Museum (Museum) — 8.7 mi, 065° NE
Tygart Lake (Recreation Area) — 10.9 mi, 032° NE
Stonecoal Lake Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 11.0 mi, 212° SW
Pleasant Creek Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 11.4 mi, 036° NE
Jane Lew (Monument) — 11.7 mi, 273° W
Watters Smith Memorial State Park (State Park) — 12.2 mi, 295° NW
Jackson's Mill (State Recreation Area) — 13.9 mi, 268° W
Stonewall Jackson Memorial (Monument) — 15.4 mi, 254° W
Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum (West Virginia Hospital for the Insane/Weston State Hospital) (Museum) — 15.6 mi, 254° W
Monongahela National Forest (National Forest) — 19.2 mi, 081° E · 922k acres
Civil War Marker (Registered Battlefield) — 19.7 mi, 204° SW
Old Brick Playhouse (Theatre) — 21.8 mi, 123° SE
West Virginia Railroad Museum (Museum) — 21.8 mi, 124° SE
Tygart Valley Cinemas (Cinema) — 22.3 mi, 000° N
Fidler's Mill - Historic Gristmill & Building (Museum) — 22.4 mi, 202° S
Randolph County Museum (Museum) — 24.6 mi, 137° SE
Helvetia Village Historic District (Attraction) — 27.2 mi, 181° S
Otter Creek Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 27.7 mi, 107° E · 21k acres
Falls Mill Overlook (Viewpoint) — 29.8 mi, 221° SW
Noah Haddon's Indian Fort (Historic Ruins) — 33.4 mi, 164° S
Laurel Fork North Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 35.0 mi, 126° SE · 6,048 acres
Spruce Knob-Seneca Rocks National Recreation Area (National Recreation Area) — 39.2 mi, 117° SE · 100k acres
George Washington National Forest (National Forest) — 45.6 mi, 140° SE · 1.1M acres

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