Piedmont, WV

Piedmont is a town in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States. The 2020 census counted 716 residents. Piedmont is part of the Cumberland, MD-WV metropolitan statistical area. Piedmont is situated in the Allegheny Front mountain range along the North Branch of the Potomac River. Piedmont has not had a high school in town since 1976. Piedmont High School was consolidated with Keyser High School in 1977. Piedmont's local map joins its older history to the places and landscapes that still shape the town today, all within the wider West Virginia setting. The local scoop is how Piedmont's history still shows up in the places people visit, work, learn, and meet.

As its name suggests, Piedmont is located at the base of a mountain, in this instance the foot of the Allegheny Front, the eastern edge of the Allegheny Mountains or Appalachian Plateau, on the south side of the North Branch of the Potomac River. The Town of Piedmont is situated in the Allegheny Front mountain range along the North Branch of the Potomac River. Piedmont includes a desirable location for a depot on the Baltimore.