Strange Creek, West Virginia

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Strange Creek is an unincorporated community along Route 4 in Braxton County, West Virginia, United States, near the border with Clay County. It lies along the bank of the Elk River. The actual creek runs southeast and ends just past the community of Dille in Nicholas County.

[edit] Name

Local legend says that a man named William Strange got lost in the area along which the creek runs. It is said that he wrote a small poem on a tree, that went something along the lines of:

Strange is my name and I'm on strange ground and strange it is that I can't be found

There have been many variations on this, but this is most commonly seen.

[edit] Further reading

Coleman's West Virginia Atlas and Gazetteer
"Wonderful West Virginia magazines"

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

County seat: Sutton

Towns	Burnsville \| Flatwoods \| Gassaway \| Sutton

Unincorporated communities	Canfield \| Caress \| Centralia \| Copen \| Exchange \| Falls Mill \| Frametown \| Gip \| Heaters \| Little Otter \| Napier \| Rosedale \| Strange Creek \| Tague