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Garten West Virginia Map

Explore Garten, 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 Garten, West Virginia

How to Use This Garten, West Virginia Map

This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Garten, 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 Garten.

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	Garten
State	West Virginia (WV)
County	Fayette County
Country	United States of America
Timezone	Eastern Time (America/New_York)

Latitude	38.034556
Longitude	-81.076768
Population	204
Density	187.1 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Code	25840
Area Code	304
County Seat	Fayetteville
School District	Fayette County School District

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About Garten, West Virginia

Garten is a locality in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. It is a small community with a population of 204. The population density is 187.1 people per km². Garten is located at 38.0346°N, 81.0768°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP code: 25840.

Garten anchors itself firmly to the rugged, steep-walled terrain where the Butcher Branch cuts a narrow, winding path through the dark earth. It lies 18.7 miles north-northeast of Beckley, WV (from Beckley, WV: bearing 19°T), and is situated 5.8 miles northeast of Oak Hill. The landscape here is defined by deep, shadowed inclines and the encroaching density of Appalachian hardwood, where the light at dusk turns a bruised, heavy violet against the timber. Toney Hollow creates a singular, quiet depression in the topography only a mile away, while the distant, hazy silhouettes of the Appalachian Mountains frame the horizon like a serrated blade. The air remains cool and damp, carrying the scent of damp loam and shale, a constant reminder of the weight of the hills that press in from every direction.

Garten exists as a quiet relic of the coal-camp era, a place where the infrastructure of extraction once dictated the rhythm of every sunrise and sunset. Today, the stillness is broken only by the movement of the wind through the trees or the occasional passage of a vehicle along the weathered tracks, as the local economy has transitioned toward the preservation of the wild, untamed surroundings of the New River Gorge National Park and Preserve. The legacy of the mines remains in the very character of the soil, yet the land is slowly finding a new equilibrium, reclaimed by the persistent growth of the forest. Four miles distant, the waters of Coal Run offer a reflective, silent contrast to the sharp ridges, grounding the locality in a landscape that values endurance over haste.

Nearby Outdoor Places

New River Gorge National Park and Preserve (National Conservation Area) — 0.0 mi, 037° NE · 53k acres
Diamond Point Overlook (Viewpoint) — 1.6 mi, 036° NE
Love Hope Arts (Gallery) — 1.7 mi, 310° NW
Fayetteville Town Park (Local Recreation) — 1.7 mi, 331° NW
Fayetteville Arts Coalition (Arts Centre) — 2.1 mi, 312° NW
Piller (Historic Ruins) — 3.1 mi, 355° N
Needleseye Park (Local Park) — 3.7 mi, 209° SW
Russell Mathews Park (Local Recreation) — 3.8 mi, 229° SW
Babcock State Park (State Park) — 3.9 mi, 127° SE
Fayette County Park (Local Park) — 4.4 mi, 310° NW
Ace Adventure Resort (Theme Park) — 4.4 mi, 195° S
Beury Mountain Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 4.8 mi, 138° SE
Coal Miner Memorial (Monument) — 5.0 mi, 229° SW
Rush Run Coke Ovens (Historic Ruins) — 5.0 mi, 171° S
Lively Amphitheater (Theatre) — 5.8 mi, 223° SW
Hawks Nest State Park (State Park) — 6.1 mi, 339° N
The Mystery Hole (Attraction) — 7.1 mi, 330° NW
Hank’s Last Stop (Attraction) — 7.4 mi, 213° SW
The Canopy (Attraction) — 8.0 mi, 193° S
Plum Orchard Lake Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 8.3 mi, 229° SW
Walter Scott's statue (Monument) — 8.6 mi, 197° S
AT&T Summit Stadium (Theatre) — 8.6 mi, 199° S
Vanbibbers Rock (Attraction) — 10.7 mi, 318° NW
Gauley River National Recreation Area (National Recreation Area) — 11.2 mi, 001° N · 5,067 acres
CDB Theatre (Cinema) — 11.3 mi, 205° SW
Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine (Museum) — 18.5 mi, 201° S
Youth Museum of Southwestern West Virginia (Museum) — 18.5 mi, 201° S
Summersville Lake State Park (Nature Reserve) — 18.8 mi, 040° NE
Monongahela National Forest (National Forest) — 29.5 mi, 053° NE · 922k acres
Cranberry Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 40.0 mi, 060° NE · 48k acres

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