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Lashmeet West Virginia Map

Explore Lashmeet, 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 Lashmeet, West Virginia

How to Use This Lashmeet, West Virginia Map

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

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

Latitude	37.42095
Longitude	-81.199264
Population	409
Density	210.6 /km²
Incorporated	N/A
ZIP Codes	24747, 24733
Area Code	304
County Seat	Princeton
School District	Mercer County School District

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About Lashmeet, West Virginia

Lashmeet is a locality in Mercer County, West Virginia, United States. It is a small community with a population of 409. The population density is 210.6 people per km². Lashmeet is located at 37.4209°N, 81.1993°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. ZIP codes: 24747, 24733.

Lashmeet occupies a low, green basin where the land seems to hold its breath beneath the weight of the sky. It lies 24.7 miles south of Beckley, WV (from Beckley, WV: bearing 181°T), and is situated 6.5 miles northwest of Princeton. The Middleton Fork carves a deliberate path through the landscape, its waters moving with a quiet, persistent gravity that dictates the flow of the terrain toward the nearby shadows of Church Hollow. Sunlight here does not merely illuminate; it filters through the dense canopy of hardwoods, turning the afternoon air into a translucent, amber medium that clings to the bark of oaks and maples. Three miles away, the surface of Periwinkle Bottom remains a still, obsidian mirror, reflecting the heavy, humid stillness that characterizes the afternoons when the wind dies down and the silence of the woods asserts its dominance.

Lashmeet persists as a place defined by the stubborn endurance of those who carved their lives from the earth, long after the heavy industry of the coal era shifted its gaze elsewhere. The economy, once tethered to the extraction of deep-earth resources, now moves at a cadence dictated by the seasons and the small-scale commerce that keeps the local spirit tethered to the ground. Five miles away, the expanse of Camp Creek State Forest serves as a reminder of the wilder, unmanaged reality that surrounds the human footprint, offering a vast, green buffer that keeps the modern world at a distance. Life in Lashmeet favors the slow accumulation of habit, where the rhythm of the day is marked by the shifting shadows on the ridges and the knowledge that, while the distant Appalachian Mountains frame the horizon, the immediate life of the place remains firmly grounded in the quiet, working soil of its own hollows.

Nearby Outdoor Places

Perdue Family Crest (Monument) — 0.7 mi, 254° W
Camp Creek State Forest (State Resource Management Area) — 5.2 mi, 025° NE
Glenwood Recreational Park (Local Park) — 6.0 mi, 164° S
Unknown Park (Local Park) — 6.0 mi, 123° SE
Camp Creek State Park (State Park) — 6.1 mi, 031° NE
Stone Arch (Historic Ruins) — 6.1 mi, 133° SE
Pinnacle Rock State Park (State Park) — 8.2 mi, 216° SW
Pinnacle Rock Overlook (Viewpoint) — 8.5 mi, 216° SW
Bluefield Love Sign (Public Artwork) — 12.3 mi, 199° S
Anawalt Lake Wildlife Management Area (State Conservation Area) — 12.5 mi, 237° SW
Bluestone National Scenic River (Wild & Scenic River) — 13.9 mi, 049° NE · 3,035 acres
Jefferson National Forest (National Forest) — 14.9 mi, 171° S · 733k acres
Kimberling Creek Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 16.7 mi, 159° S · 6,092 acres
This Way (Monument) — 19.9 mi, 167° S
Hunting Camp Creek Wilderness (Wilderness Area) — 20.3 mi, 183° S · 8,471 acres
Appalachian National Scenic Trail (National Trail) — 23.2 mi, 190° S · 110k acres
World War II Memorial (Monument) — 24.2 mi, 044° NE
Beckley Mill Site (Historic Ruins) — 24.5 mi, 006° N
New River Gorge National Park and Preserve (National Conservation Area) — 25.0 mi, 020° N · 53k acres
Ship Rock (Attraction) — 25.1 mi, 007° N
Youth Museum of Southwestern West Virginia (Museum) — 25.1 mi, 000° N
Beckley Exhibition Coal Mine (Museum) — 25.1 mi, 000° N
Climbing Tree Theather (Cinema) — 25.7 mi, 220° SW
Theatre West Virginia (Theatre) — 29.3 mi, 014° N
Historic Crab Orchard Museum (Museum) — 29.3 mi, 225° SW
Wyoming County Historical Museum (Museum) — 30.3 mi, 308° NW
CDB Theatre (Cinema) — 32.2 mi, 003° N
Wohlfahrt Haus Dinner Theatre (Theatre) — 33.8 mi, 166° S
Fine Arts Center for the New River Valley (Arts Centre) — 34.6 mi, 138° SE
The Canopy (Attraction) — 34.9 mi, 008° N

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