The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusMitchell Heights is a town in Logan County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 315 at the 2020 census. The town was named for an early farm on which it was established.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 323 to 314 (-3%). Half of its homes were built before 1972.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of Mitchell Heights yet — the old photos, dates and memories neighbors add here are how it gets written.
Intro from Wikipedia, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. Population and housing: U.S. Census Bureau.
Start Mitchell Heights’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how Mitchell Heights’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10Famous people close to Mitchell Heights
See all 16 →
Mitchell Heights, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in Mitchell Heights is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean Mitchell Heights has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Chesapeake and Ohio 2755 Steam Locomotive in Henlawson, 1.7 miles away.
Mitchell Heights and the nearest listed places
How a place gets listed
Then & now
When neighbors add old photos, retakes from the same spot appear here side by side.
Stories next door
nearby towns’ historyFrom Wikimedia Commons (3). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.