Deep Water, West Virginia

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Deep Water, also known historically as Deepwater,^[1] is an unincorporated town on the Kanawha River in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. It is best known as the starting point of the Deepwater Railway founded in 1898 by William N. Page, which was merged to create the Virginian Railway in 1907.

Located near the head of navigation of the Kanawha River just a short distance downstream from Kanawha Falls, it may have been named for that reason. However, according to local legend as recounted by H. Reid in The Virginian Railway (Kalmbach, 1961), it was named by Squire James Galsepy Kincaid and other locals on a rainy day in 1871 as a commentary on the standing groundwater outside the new post office along Loup Creek.

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^ Geographic Names Information System. Geographic Names Information System entry for Deep Water (Feature ID #1554279). Retrieved on 2007-03-09.

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Deep Water, West Virginia is at coordinates 38°07′36″N 81°15′49″W / 38.1267740, -81.2637204 (Deep Water, West Virginia)Coordinates: 38°07′36″N 81°15′49″W / 38.1267740, -81.2637204 (Deep Water, West Virginia)

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

County seat: Fayetteville

Cities	Montgomery‡ \| Mount Hope \| Oak Hill \| Smithers‡

Towns	Ansted \| Fayetteville \| Gauley Bridge \| Meadow Bridge \| Pax \| Thurmond

CDP	Powellton

Unincorporated communities	Agnew \| Alloy \| Alta \| Boomer \| Carlisle \| Charlton Heights \| Clifftop \| Deep Water \| Dothan \| Elkridge \| Fayette \| Glen Ferris \| Kimberly \| Kincaid \| Montgomery Heights \| Mount Carbon \| North Page \| Nutall \| Page \| Pine Grove \| Robson \| Scarbro \| Toney Creek

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties