Rivesville West Virginia Map

About Rivesville, West Virginia

Rivesville is a locality in Marion County, West Virginia, United States. It is a small community with a population of 828. The population density is 610.1 people per km². Rivesville is located at 39.5298°N, 80.1167°W. It observes the Eastern Time (America/New_York) timezone. Rivesville is an incorporated locality. ZIP code: 26588.

Rivesville occupies a narrow, quiet stretch of land where the Pharaoh Run carves its path toward the larger river, defining the local topography with a persistent, soft-spoken hydrology. It lies 3.4 miles north-northeast of Fairmont, WV (from Fairmont, WV: bearing 24°T), and is situated 5.3 miles north-northeast of Pleasant Valley. The landscape here is characterized by the intimate scale of the terrain, where the horizon is often limited by the steep rise of the earth, though the distant Appalachian Mountains provide a hazy, blue-toned boundary to the east. At Rivesville Park, the air holds a particular stillness in the late afternoon, as the light flattens against the slope, turning the green of the summer grasses into a muted, dusty olive that seems to absorb the day's heat.

History in Rivesville remains tethered to the deep, subterranean pulse of the coal industry, a legacy that once dictated the rhythm of daily life and the architecture of the streets. While the economy has shifted away from its heavy industrial roots, the influence of those decades persists in the sturdy, unadorned character of the houses and the quiet resolve of the residents who remain. Life here moves with the deliberate pace of a place that has seen the height of extraction and the slow, necessary process of adjustment that follows. Those seeking the cooling depths of Barrackville Number 41 Lake find it only a short distance away, a quiet reach of water that mirrors the sky and offers a reprieve from the dense, wooded character of the surrounding hills.

About This Rivesville Map Page

This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Rivesville, West Virginia. Coordinates: 39.529806, -80.116742. 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 Rivesville includes the ZIP code (26588), telephone area code (304), county seat of Marion County (Fairmont), and school district assignment (Marion 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.