The story so far
from Wikipedia & the U.S. CensusWest Hamlin is a town in Lincoln County, West Virginia, United States, along the Guyandotte River. The population was 519 at the 2020 census, and is now down to 509, according to the 2021 census. West Hamlin is a part of the Huntington-Ashland, WV-KY-OH, Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). West Hamlin is west of the county seat at Hamlin, hence the name.
Between the 2010 and 2020 censuses its population fell from 774 to 524 (-32%). Half of its homes were built before 1983.
Wikipedia doesn’t have a history of West Hamlin 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 West Hamlin’s collection
The first neighbors to add old photos shape how West Hamlin’s history is told.
0 of 10 decades since 1900 have photos 📦Share a family photoSign in to add one+10West Hamlin, decade by decade
2000
Nothing in West Hamlin is on the National Register yet
That’s true of most small towns. It doesn’t mean West Hamlin has no history, only that no one has written up a nomination. The closest listed place is Lincoln National Bank in Hamlin, 5 miles away.
West Hamlin 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 (1). Images are copied here with their credits and licenses, shown on each photo’s page. Refreshed monthly.