Salt Rock, WV

Salt Rock is a census-designated place in southern Cabell County, West Virginia, United States. The 2020 census counted 373 residents. Salt Rock lies along West Virginia Route 10 southeast of Huntington, the county seat of Cabell County. Its elevation is 581 feet. That mix gives Salt Rock a clear local shape within West Virginia, with older layers still visible in current places. The local scoop is a place whose streets, landmarks, and institutions keep its earlier story close to the present. The first white settlers arrived in the Salt Rock area from Giles County, Virginia, while pursuing an Indigenous raiding party that had taken their horses.