Explore Twilight, 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.
This interactive map shows the street layout and satellite imagery for Twilight, 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 Twilight.
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 | Twilight |
| State | West Virginia (WV) |
| County | Boone County |
| Country | United States of America |
| Timezone | Eastern Time (America/New_York) |
| Latitude | 37.925321 |
| Longitude | -81.61456 |
| Population | 74 |
| Density | 57.0 /km² |
| Incorporated | N/A |
| ZIP Codes | 26059, 25204 |
| Area Code | 304 |
| County Seat | Madison |
| School District | Boone County School District |
Twilight emerges from the shadows of the deep canopy, defined by the constant, rhythmic passage of the West Fork Pond Fork as it carves a narrow vein through the earth. It lies 25.9 miles west-northwest of Beckley, WV (from Beckley, WV: bearing 294°T), and is situated 14.4 miles southeast of Madison. The air here holds a heavy, damp stillness, carrying the scent of damp shale and decaying leaves that thicken as one wanders toward the mouth of Still Hollow. Steep, claustrophobic ridges press inward, their flanks cloaked in dense stands of timber that mute the sky to a sliver of pale indigo. Light in Twilight behaves differently than in the open plains, catching the mossy undersides of sandstone boulders and turning the forest floor into a gallery of muted greens and rusted ochre, where the only movement is the flicker of a jay’s wing against the canopy.
Coal dust and the memory of labor remain the bedrock of the local character, a legacy etched into the very soil that once fueled the industry of the region. Though the bustle of the mines has long since quieted, the economy persists in the quiet resilience of those who remain, their lives measured by the slow turn of the seasons and the occasional trek toward the broader horizons marked by the distant Appalachian Mountains. Residents often look toward the quiet expanse of Unknown Park for respite, finding in those preserved woods a mirror of the rugged landscape that surrounds them. Even with Hyer Lake lying silent and remote in the distance, the people of Twilight maintain a fierce, independent pride, finding beauty in the way the twilight hour bleeds into the valley, transforming the stark industrial remnants into silhouettes against the darkening ridge-tops.
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This page provides an embedded street and satellite map of Twilight, West Virginia. Coordinates: 37.925321, -81.61456. 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 Twilight includes the ZIP code (26059, 25204), telephone area code (304), county seat of Boone County (Madison), and school district assignment (Boone County School District).
Search Maps opens a second, independent map. It searches OpenStreetMap for any US town, county or landmark by name; offers USGS topographic maps and USGS aerial imagery as base layers; overlays a labelled U.S. National Grid (USNG) so the map can be read like a printed topographic quad; measures distance and grid, true and magnetic bearings between any two points; and takes a single GPS fix reporting your position as a USNG grid reference and as latitude and longitude. Map tiles require cell coverage, but a GPS position does not, so the coordinates remain correct even where the map cannot load.
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.
| Page generated | September 2026 |
| Location data | SimpleMaps US Cities Database; coordinates matched to USGS GNIS definitive data |
| Map layers | Google Maps; © OpenStreetMap contributors; USGS The National Map topographic and aerial imagery (public domain); magnetic declination from NOAA NCEI (World Magnetic Model) |
| Wikipedia validation | Article content matched to USGS GNIS coordinates via Wikipedia geosearch API. |