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Big Chimney is a small unincorporated community located on U.S. Route 119 in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States. It is accessible by West Virginia Route 114 or exit 5 from I-79. The center of town includes a fast-food restaurant, a drug store, hardware store and grocery store, along with a few smaller businesses. The town is named after the tall chimney of the local salt works, which was a prominent landmark.[1]
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- Coleman West Virginia Atlas and Gazetter
- ^ History of Charleston and Kanawha County West Virginia and Representative Citizens, W.S. Laidley, Richmond Arnold Publishing Co., Chicago, 1911
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Aarons | Acme | Acup | Airport Village | Amandaville | Amelia | Annfred | Barren Creek | Big Chimney | Blackhawk | Blakeley | Blount | Blue Creek | Blundon | Bream | Brounland | Burnwell | Cabin Creek | Carbon | Chelyan | Cinco | Coalburg | Coalridge | Coco | Corton | Crede | Crown Hill | Davis Creek | Dawes | Decota | Dial | Diamond | Dickinson | Donwood | Dry Branch | Dungriff | Dupont City | East Nitro | East Side | Edgewood | Elk | Elk Forest | Elk Hills | Emmons‡ | Eskdale | Etowah | Falling Rock | Ferrell | Fivemile | Forest Hills | Forks of Coal | Fort Hill | Frame | Gallagher | Giles | Green Valley | Greencastle | Grippe | Guthrie | Hansford | Hernshaw | Hicumbottom | Highlawn | Hillsdale | Hitop | Holly | Hollygrove | Hollyhurst | Hugheston | Institute | Island Branch | Ivydale | Jarrett | Jarretts Ford | Joplin | Kanawha Estates | Kayford | Kelly Hill | Kendalia | Laing | Leewood | Mink Shoals | Quick | Rand
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‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
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Coordinates: 38°24′20″N 81°32′08″W / 38.40556, -81.53556