Monongah, WV

Monongah is a town in Marion County, West Virginia, United States, situated where Booths Creek flows into the West Fork River. The 2020 census counted 972 residents. Monongah was chartered in 1891. Its name is derived from the nearby Monongahela River. Fairmont Coal Company, of Fairmont, West Virginia, bought 36 mines in June 1901, including six mines of the Monongah Company. The town's local cement block factory went out of business in 2002 and was torn down in 2003. Monongah High School was merged with the public high school populations of Mannington, Barrackville, and Fairview, West Virginia in 1979 to form North Marion High School, located in Farmington, West Virginia.

North Marion was constructed to replace Farmington High School, which closed in 1975. A newcomer can read Monongah through the overlap of its older landmarks, surrounding geography, and current places. For a newcomer, Monongah comes into focus through those concrete links among its past, landscape, and current routines. The Adena and Hopewell peoples dwelt in what is now northern West Virginia 1,500–2,000+ years ago. For such a small community, Monongah consists of many villages or named neighborhoods.