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History · Beech Bottom

Beech Bottom’s post office opened in 1919, and 46% of its homes were built before 1940

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How Beech Bottom began

When was Beech Bottom founded?

1919

The Beech Bottom post office opened in 1919, the earliest record of the town by name. Another post office, Power (1921), opened inside today’s town and later closed.

2020 census: 553107 years
Founding year: the first Beech Bottom post office (Blevins & Helbock, CC0).

What stands out about Beech Bottom’s past

Read from the archive, the National Register and the record. The page puts what stands out first.

A history waiting to be writtenNo old photos of Beech Bottom are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Beech Bottom’s homes were built before 1942.
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The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Beech Bottom’s history is told.

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The story so far

Beech Bottom, in brief

Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Beech Bottom yet. The photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.

Beech Bottom is a village in Brooke County, West Virginia, United States, situated along the Ohio River. The population was 553 at the 2020 census. It is part of the Weirton–Steubenville metropolitan area. Beech Bottom was incorporated in 1953.

Its first post office opened in 1919. Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population grew from 523 to 553 (+6%).

Intro from Wikipedia. Population: U.S. Census Bureau.

Timeline

Beech Bottom, 1919 to 1974

Woven from the archive, old maps, post office records, the National Register and the people born here.

  1. 20th century
  2. 1919Post officeThe Beech Bottom post office opens
  3. 1921Post officeThe Power post office opens
  4. 1974Post officeThe Power post office closes
By decade

No old photos in the archives yet

Weddings on Main Street, storms, parades, school pictures, the old store. If it’s in your family album, it belongs here.

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Places that used to be

Lost post offices, old corners and places now gone

Beech Bottom’s post office has been open since 1919. Another post office, Power, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Beech Bottom
1919–today
Power
1921–1974
19101970today
Hamlets and corners on the map
Power
Gone or out of use
Holy Family Roman Catholic ChurchchurchWindsor Minemine

US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock, CC0). Places and cemeteries from the USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021).

Questions about Beech Bottom’s history

What year was Beech Bottom founded?

The Beech Bottom post office opened in 1919, the earliest record of the town by name (U.S. post office records).

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Where this page comes from

Founding dates: Wikidata, Wikipedia, the U.S. post office records of Blevins & Helbock (CC0) and the Census. Homes by year built: Census ACS 2020–24. National Register of Historic Places: National Park Service (list of May 22, 2026). Old photos, postcards and papers: Wikimedia Commons, the Library of Congress and other public archives, credited on each item’s page. Maps: U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (via Esri) and Sanborn fire-insurance maps (Library of Congress). History text and census tables: Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0). Places that used to be: USGS Geographic Names Information System (2021). How TownRatings grades history →

From the US Post Offices dataset (Blevins & Helbock) and the USGS Geographic Names Information System. Archive images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.