Here is another site that is excellent for finding places: http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnis/web_query.gnis_web_query_form This site is particularly good because, as we know, many of the coal towns in West Virginia either have changed their names or no longer exist. The U.S. Geological Survey site includes not only currently existing towns, but historical ones and variant names. For example, the town of Stuart in Fayette Co. is now called Lochgelly. The Rootsweb site gives me no hits for Stuart, WV; however, the USGS site does, giving me its current name, and I can access a map to pinpoint its location. On the downside, the USGS recently made changes to their site and it seems to run slow ever since. Hopefully, they will get the bugs worked out soon. Best wishes, June At 02:02 PM 5/31/2001 -0800, you wrote: >I should have mentioned where I found that. It's a cool tool on RootWeb for >finding county names: > >http://resources.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/townco.cgi > >You just type in the town name and the state it's in and hit submit and it >will tell you what county the town is in. > >-- >Cara (Gregory) Showers >Anchorage, Alaska >[email protected] > >---------- >From: Cara Showers <[email protected]> >Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 13:49:05 -0800 >To: [email protected] >Subject: FW: [WVKANAWH] SOUTHSIDE >Resent-From: [email protected] >Resent-Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 14:50:51 -0700 > > >Southside, WV is in Mason Co., WV > > >-- >Cara (Gregory) Showers >Anchorage, Alaska >[email protected] > >---------- >From: [email protected] >Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 17:46:35 EDT >To: [email protected] >Subject: [WVKANAWH] SOUTHSIDE >Resent-From: [email protected] >Resent-Date: Thu, 31 May 2001 14:46:43 -0700 > > > >Can anyone tell me which county Southside W. Va. is located???? > >Thank you very much. >Lynn > > > >============================== >Ancestry.com Genealogical Databases >http://www.ancestry.com/rd/rwlist2.asp >Search over 2500 databases with one easy query! > > > > >============================== >Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: >Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. >http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com > > > > >============================== >Join the RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: >Linking the world, one GEDCOM at a time. >http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com > >