Burning Springs, West Virginia

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Burning Springs is an unincorporated town in Wirt County, West Virginia, USA. It takes its name from the natural gas which bubbled up through the spring and would burn when exposed to fire. The first well drilled to obtain oil was began in 1859. However other wells drilled here to produce salt water actually produced oil as much as twenty years earlier making Titusville, Pa a late comer to oil production.

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Burning Springs, West Virginia is at coordinates 38°58′52″N 81°18′50″W / 38.9811928, -81.3140075 (Burning Springs, West Virginia)Coordinates: 38°58′52″N 81°18′50″W / 38.9811928, -81.3140075 (Burning Springs, West Virginia)

v • d • e Municipalities and communities of Wirt County, West Virginia

County seat: Elizabeth

Town	Elizabeth

Unincorporated communities	Beaverdam \| Beulah Hill \| Brohard \| Burning Springs \| Cherry \| Creston \| Enterprise \| Freeport \| Garfield \| Greencastle \| Hilbert \| Ivan \| Lucile \| McClain \| Morristown \| Munday \| Newark \| Palestine \| Peewee \| Rover \| Sanoma \| Two Run \| Windy \| Zackville