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Hometown West Virginia Map

Explore Hometown, 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 Hometown, West Virginia

How to Use This Hometown, West Virginia Map

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

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

Latitude	38.532867
Longitude	-81.861244
Population	556
Density	267.7 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	25109, 25168
Area Code	304
County Seat	Winfield
School District	Putnam County School District

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About Hometown, West Virginia

Hometown is a locality in Putnam County, West Virginia, United States. It is a small community with a population of 556. The population density is 267.7 people per km². Hometown is located at 38.5329°N, 81.8612°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 25109, 25168.

Hometown anchors itself firmly against the low, heavy light of the Kanawha River, where the water moves with a sluggish, industrial weight toward the horizon. It lies 6.8 miles north-northeast of Teays Valley, WV (from Teays Valley, WV: bearing 33°T), and is situated 8.7 miles north-northwest of Cross Lanes. The landscape here is defined by the steep, verdant rise of the land, a topography that forces the eye upward toward the canopy of hardwood trees that define the character of the region. To the east, the Appalachian Mountains appear as a faint, jagged smudge of violet against the sky, a distant reminder of the vast, folded geology that dictates the climate and the slow, deliberate pace of the mornings. The Amherst/Plymouth Wildlife Management Area occupies the immediate periphery, providing a dense, unmanicured buffer of thicket and deer path that keeps the encroachment of the modern world at a respectful distance. Three miles away, the shadow of Alcocks Hollow deepens in the afternoon, pulling the cool air down from the ridges to settle over the valley floor like a damp, woolen blanket.

Hometown carries the quiet, persistent gravity of a place built on the extraction of coal and the movement of freight, where the economy has long been dictated by the river’s channel and the rail lines that parallel its course. The local industry, once a booming engine of the interior, now hums with a more subdued, intermittent energy, leaving behind a legacy of sturdy, utilitarian architecture and a population that values a kind of guarded, practical resilience. Life here is measured by the change in the river’s level and the seasonal migration of game through the Amherst/Plymouth Wildlife Management Area, rather than the frantic tempo of the distant cities. While Lake Ann Tormey sits five miles away, a quiet basin of still, dark water reflecting the clouds, the people of Hometown remain tethered to the Kanawha River, which serves as both a literal thoroughfare and a silent witness to the generations who have worked the soil and the seam alike. There is a specific, melancholy beauty in the way the dusk gathers here, turning the river to polished pewter and hushing the clatter of the day into an expectant, heavy stillness.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Amherst/Plymouth Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 0.1 mi, 151° SE
Hometown Roadside Park (Local Recreation) — 0.3 mi, 145° SE
Esther & Norman Walter Memorial Nature Park (Local Park) — 1.5 mi, 018° N
Walter Nature Park (Local Park) — 1.5 mi, 018° N
Unknown Park (Local Recreation) — 1.8 mi, 145° SE
Winfield Pool Recreation Area (Recreation Area) — 2.2 mi, 273° W
Indian Rock (Attraction) — 8.8 mi, 170° S
Chief Cornstalk Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 12.0 mi, 326° NW
Burial Atendants (Public Artwork) — 14.4 mi, 142° SE
Shoney's Big Boy Museum (Monument) — 15.6 mi, 137° SE
Milton Veterans Memorial (Monument) — 16.5 mi, 246° SW
Elk City Playhouse (Theatre) — 16.8 mi, 135° SE
Park Place Stadium Cinema 11 (Cinema) — 17.6 mi, 135° SE
Sunrise Bird Sanctuary Museum (Museum) — 17.6 mi, 137° SE
Charleston Art Gallery (Arts Centre) — 17.6 mi, 138° SE
Annex Gallery (Gallery) — 17.6 mi, 136° SE
State Capitol (Monument) — 17.6 mi, 136° SE
Bear Wood Company (Gallery) — 17.6 mi, 136° SE
WV market gallery (Gallery) — 17.7 mi, 136° SE
Walker Theatre (Theatre) — 17.9 mi, 135° SE
Kanawha State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 18.5 mi, 157° SE
University of Charleston Stadium (Stadium) — 18.6 mi, 134° SE
West Virginia State Museum (Museum) — 19.0 mi, 135° SE
Frankenberger Art Gallery (Museum) — 19.1 mi, 136° SE
Nature preserve (Viewpoint) — 19.6 mi, 141° SE
Ohio River Islands National Wildlife Refuge (National Wildlife Refuge) — 24.2 mi, 353° N · 6,562 acres
Falling Rock Smoke stack (Historic Ruins) — 26.3 mi, 102° E
Wayne National Forest (National Forest) — 27.1 mi, 304° NW · 243k acres
Beech Fork State Park (State Park) — 29.3 mi, 238° SW
Gauley River National Recreation Area (National Recreation Area) — 45.5 mi, 118° SE · 5,067 acres

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