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History · Crooked Creek

40% of Crooked Creek’s homes were built before 1940

Below: maps from 1913 on.

0on the National Register
40%homes built before 1940
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What stands out about Crooked Creek’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 Crooked Creek are in the public archives yet. The rest are in attics and albums.Old housesHalf of Crooked Creek’s homes were built before 1947.On the map since 19134 editions of the USGS map, 1913 to 1976. Watch Crooked Creek change.
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The story so far

Crooked Creek, in brief

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

Crooked Creek is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Logan County, West Virginia, United States. The CDP was first drawn for the 2020 census, in which the population was 273. Crooked Creek is in central Logan County, in the valley of its namesake creek, a west-flowing tributary of the Guyandotte River. The community is bordered to the south by Peach Creek, in the valley of its own namesake creek. Crooked Creek is 3 miles (5 km) north of Logan, the county seat. According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the Crooked Creek CDP has an area of 0.58 square miles (1.5 km2), all land.

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

On the map

Crooked Creek on the map, 1913 to 1976

Every edition of the U.S. Geological Survey’s map of Crooked Creek. Tap a year, or press play to watch the town change.

Crooked Creek on the 1913 USGS mapCrooked Creek on the 1926 USGS mapCrooked Creek on the 1963 USGS mapCrooked Creek on the 1976 USGS map1913Logan sheet · 1:62,500

U.S. Geological Survey historical topographic maps (public domain), via Esri’s collection of the scans. The red ring marks the center of Crooked Creek.

Timeline

Crooked Creek, 1909 to 1925

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

  1. 20th century
  2. 1909Post officeThe Hughey post office opens
  3. 1913On the mapFirst mapped by the U.S. Geological Survey
  4. 1915Post officeThe Peach Creek post office opens
  5. 1925Post officeThe Hughey 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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Famous people

Famous people close to Crooked Creek

Nobody well known was born in Crooked Creek itself, so here are the best known from just nearby.

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Joanne DruAmerican film and television actress · b. 1922
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Lea Ann ParsleySkeleton racer · b. 1968
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Michael AmmarMagician · b. 1956
Devil Anse HatfieldPatriarch of the Hatfield clan · b. 1839
Ted BelcherUnited States Army Medal of Honor recipient · b. 1924
Jack HarrisAmerican broadcaster · b. 1941
Places that used to be

Lost post offices and places now gone

Another post office, Hughey, opened and closed inside today’s town.

Hughey
1909–1925
Peach Creek
1915–today
19001960today
Gone or out of use
Crooked Creek Schoolschool

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

Stories next door

History across the town line

Each neighbor’s History grade, on the same three inputs.

Peach CreekIts storynot graded: under 1,000 residents or part of its town

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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 U.S. Geological Survey historical maps, 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.