Hollygrove West Virginia Map

About Hollygrove, West Virginia

Hollygrove is a locality in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States. It is a small community with a population of 113. The population density is 247.9 people per km². Hollygrove is located at 38.1904°N, 81.3959°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 25061, 25103.

Hollygrove emerges from the dense, verdant folds of the earth where the steady current of Paint Creek carves a narrow path through the limestone bedrock. It lies 16.9 miles southeast of Charleston, WV (from Charleston, WV: bearing 131°T), and is situated 15.8 miles south-southeast of Pinch. The air here holds a permanent, cool dampness, smelling of damp shale and the deep, dark loam of the Appalachian Mountains that loom as a distant, hazy indigo line on the horizon. Beyond the immediate reach of the creek, the land rises sharply into the steep, timbered slopes of Custer Hollow, where the sunlight struggles to reach the forest floor through the thick canopy of oak and hickory. A mile away, the London Pool Recreation Area offers a quiet expanse of cleared ground, providing a rare flat vantage point to watch the light turn thin and silver as it slips behind the ridges at the end of the day.

Hollygrove carries the weight of a history defined by the extraction of subterranean riches, an economy that once demanded everything from the men who labored in the dark seams beneath the soil. While the rhythm of the extraction industry has faded into a quiet, persistent hum of memory, the remnants of that era still linger in the weathered siding of houses and the rusted iron scattered near the creek beds. Life moves with a deliberate, cautious pace, far removed from the frantic pulse of the lowlands, and the people maintain a fierce, quiet independence that seems to rise out of the very geology of the region. Though Cool Lake sits some distance away, the local life remains tethered to the immediate, intimate geography of the creek and the deep, silent woods that have reclaimed the land where the old work once thrived.

About This Hollygrove Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Hollygrove, West Virginia. Coordinates: 38.190382, -81.395947. Live weather conditions are sourced directly from the National Weather Service. Real-time local and world news feeds keep the page current.

Detailed location data for Hollygrove includes the ZIP code (25061, 25103), telephone area code (304), county seat of Kanawha County (Charleston), and school district assignment (Kanawha County School District).

Location data is drawn from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (GNIS) and cross-verified against 2020 US Census records by coordinate proximity. Population figures are sourced from the 2020 US Census.