Prichard, WV

Prichard is a census-designated place in Wayne County, West Virginia, United States. The 2020 census counted 461 residents. Prichard is located along the Big Sandy River and U.S. Route 52. The community was named after James Pritchard. In September 1999, Senator Jay Rockefeller announced that Okuno International would open a hydraulic cylinder plant in Prichard, offering 50 new jobs and eventually expanding to 100. Prichard Elementary School opened in 1958, replacing a two-room schoolhouse. Prichard is the lone academic facility in Prichard. The short version is that Prichard carries an earlier story into the places people know and use now. That is the local read on Prichard: its past remains attached to the places people use now.