Deep Water, West Virginia

Deep Water
—  Census-designated place  —
Deep Water Location within the state of West Virginia
Coordinates: 38°7′36″N 81°15′49″W / 38.12667°N 81.26361°W / 38.12667; -81.26361Coordinates: 38°7′36″N 81°15′49″W / 38.12667°N 81.26361°W / 38.12667; -81.26361
Country	United States
State	West Virginia
County	Fayette
Area[1]
– Total	0.993 sq mi (2.6 km2)
– Land	0.882 sq mi (2.3 km2)
– Water	0.111 sq mi (0.3 km2)
Population (2010)[2]
– Total	280
– Density	282/sq mi (108.9/km2)
Time zone	Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
– Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)
ZIP codes
FIPS code
GNIS feature ID	1554279[3]

Deep Water, also known historically as Deepwater,^[3] is an unincorporated census-designated place on the Kanawha River in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 280.^[2] It is best known as the starting point of the Deepwater Railway founded in 1898 by William N. Page, which was merged to create the Virginian Railway in 1907.

Located near the head of navigation of the Kanawha River just a short distance downstream from Kanawha Falls, it may have been named for that reason. However, according to local legend as recounted by H. Reid in The Virginian Railway (Kalmbach, 1961), it was named by Squire James Galsepy Kincaid and other locals on a rainy day in 1871 as a commentary on the standing groundwater outside the new post office along Loup Creek.

References

1. ^ "US Gazetteer files: 2010, 2000, and 1990". United States Census Bureau. 2011-02-12. http://www.census.gov/geo/www/gazetteer/gazette.html. Retrieved 2011-04-23. 
2. ^ ^{a b} "American FactFinder". United States Census Bureau. http://factfinder2.census.gov. Retrieved 2011-05-14. 
3. ^ ^{a b} Geographic Names Information System. "Geographic Names Information System entry for Deep Water (Feature ID #1554279)". http://geonames.usgs.gov/pls/gnispublic/f?p=gnispq:3:::NO::P3_FID:1554279. Retrieved 2007-03-09.