List of census-designated places in West Virginia

To incorporate, communities may need to meet statutory requirements made by their respective state, such as thresholds in population or specificities relative to location.

[a] Federally, the Census Bureau defines incorporated places as areas, whose boundaries do not cross state lines, that "provide governmental functions for a concentration of people", as opposed to "minor civil [divisions], which generally ... provide services or administer an area without regard, necessarily, to population".

[5] Unincorporated communities, classified as census-designated places (CDPs), lack elected municipal officers and boundaries with legal status.

[5] The Bureau identified 169 CDPs in the state of West Virginia at the 2010 census.

[8] Of the fifty-five counties in West Virginia, Logan is home to the most CDPs, with twenty-two, followed by Fayette, with eighteen, and Raleigh, with fifteen.

A sandstone building
The Pocahontas Fuel Company owned the Itmann Company Store and Office (pictured) , located in the company town of Itmann . Designed by Alex B. Mahood , the store was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1990. The town and store both take their names from Pocahontas Fuel president I. T. Mann. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]