Accoville, WV

Accoville runs along Buffalo Creek in southeastern Logan County, with the valley extending east up Right Fork. Amherstdale lies northeast, Kistler southwest, and Logan is sixteen miles northwest down Buffalo Creek and the Guyandotte River. That geography gives Accoville a classic creek-valley shape, where the road and waterway set the direction of town.

The name comes from Amherst Coal Company, and the community’s history is tied to the coal economy. Accoville was in the path of the 1972 Buffalo Creek flood after a coal-mine dam failed, a disaster that reshaped many lives across the valley. Logan County’s local history archive still carries a photograph of Miller’s Store at Accoville, one small piece of the company-town era. Miller’s Store is a small but telling detail: in a creek valley, the store could be as important to daily life as the mine itself. The local scoop is a West Virginia coalfield community whose map follows Buffalo Creek and whose history still lives in stores, mines, and flood memory.