Cassville, WV

Cassville is a census-designated place in Monongalia County's Scott's Run area, part of the Morgantown metropolitan region. Its older story is tied to the coal communities that grew along the Monongahela River, where river access, railroads, and coal once drew workers and businesses; Cassville is one of the named communities in that former Scott's Run coal landscape. Today it is an unincorporated settlement, so county services and volunteer response fill the civic role that a town hall would play elsewhere. The Cassville volunteer fire area appears in Monongalia County emergency planning, and the community sits close enough to Morgantown for the university and regional city to define the larger map. Cassville is a small road-and-hillside community whose history is part of the region's coal story.