Blue Jay, West Virginia Explained

Official Name:	Blue Jay, West Virginia
Pushpin Map:	West Virginia#USA
Subdivision Type:	Country
Subdivision Name:	United States
Subdivision Type1:	State
Subdivision Name1:	West Virginia
Subdivision Type2:	County
Subdivision Name2:	Raleigh
Timezone:	Eastern (EST)
Utc Offset:	-5
Timezone Dst:	EDT
Utc Offset Dst:	-4
Elevation Ft:	2303
Coordinates:	37.7369°N -81.1378°W
Postal Code Type:	ZIP codes
Postal Code:	25816
Area Codes:	304 & 681
Blank Name:	GNIS feature ID
Blank Info:	1553930

Blue Jay is an unincorporated community in Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States. Blue Jay is southeast of Beckley. Its mines have yielded 1,587,229 tons of coal.^[1]

Notable person

• Basil L. Plumley (1920–2012), United States Army soldier portrayed by Sam Elliott in We Were Soldiers^[2]

Notes and References

1. Web site: Historical West Virginia Coal Production from 1883 . 2014-02-19 . 2014-02-23 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140223124211/http://www.wvminesafety.org/hist_tonnage.htm . dead .
2. Moore, Harold, and Joseph Galloway. We Are Soldiers Still. 1. New York: Harper Collins Publishers, 2008. 75. Print.