Official Name: | Cleveland, 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: | Webster |
Timezone: | Eastern (EST) |
Utc Offset: | -5 |
Timezone Dst: | EDT |
Utc Offset Dst: | -4 |
Elevation Ft: | 1276 |
Coordinates: | 38.7269°N -80.3922°W |
Postal Code Type: | ZIP code |
Postal Code: | 26215 |
Area Code: | 304 & 681 |
Blank Name: | GNIS feature ID |
Blank Info: | 1537401[1] |
Cleveland is an unincorporated community in Webster County, West Virginia, United States. Cleveland is located 17miles north of Webster Springs on West Virginia Route 20, along the Right Fork Little Kanawha River.[2] Cleveland has a post office with ZIP code 26215.[3]
Over the years, the village now known as Cleveland has had three different names: Buffalo Fork, Point, and Cleveland. This reflected the change in name assigned to the post office located in the community. The first post office was established in 1853 and was named Buffalo Fork, after the small nearby stream that flows into the right fork of the Little Kanawha River.
Thirty years later in 1883, the post office was dubbed "Point" simply because a shorter name was preferred for postal purposes. Point, however, was short-lived, as two years later, in 1885; the post office name was changed to Cleveland, in honor of Grover Cleveland,[4] who was just beginning his first term as President of the United States.