Pineville West Virginia Map

About Pineville, West Virginia

Pineville is a locality in Wyoming County, West Virginia, United States. It is a small community with a population of 645. The population density is 324.3 people per km². Pineville is located at 37.5832°N, 81.5370°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Pineville is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 24874.

Pineville holds the dark, cool water of Rockcastle Creek as it carves a path through the dense, shadowed floor of a narrow basin. It lies 23.4 miles southwest of Beckley, WV (from Beckley, WV: bearing 235°T), and is situated 8.6 miles west of Mullens. The land here rises in steep, stubborn slopes covered in thick hardwood, where the sunlight struggles to reach the damp earth during the short, bruised afternoons of late autumn. Pineville Park provides a sliver of green relief at the center of this terrain, offering a quiet space where the air tastes of damp stone and fallen leaves. Far off on the horizon, the faint, hazy silhouettes of the Appalachian Mountains loom like silent observers, watching over the deep, tangled folds of the landscape that define the rugged character of the earth.

History in this region is marked by the heavy, persistent weight of the coal industry, which long ago dictated the rhythm of daily life and the architecture of the hollows. Men once moved beneath the canopy to extract the black fuel that built the nation, leaving behind a legacy of endurance that still lingers in the quiet, focused expressions of the people who remain. While the economy has shifted, the pride of the local labor remains etched into the very soil, as tangible as the silence of the woods. Only a few miles away, the quiet stillness of Horse Creek Lake mirrors the changing sky, providing a stark, glassy contrast to the industrious, coal-stained memory of Cow Hollow. Life here moves with a deliberate, measured pace, grounded by the steady, unrelenting movement of the water and the uncompromising verticality of the surrounding hills.

About This Pineville Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Pineville, West Virginia. Coordinates: 37.583168, -81.53705. 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 Pineville includes the ZIP code (24874), telephone area code (304), county seat of Wyoming County (Pineville), and school district assignment (Wyoming 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.