Lookout, West Virginia

Lookout, West Virginia
Lookout is located in West Virginia
Lookout
Lookout
Lookout is located in the United States
Lookout
Lookout
Coordinates: 38°03′55″N 80°58′06″W / 38.06528°N 80.96833°W / 38.06528; -80.96833
CountryUnited States
StateWest Virginia
CountyFayette
Elevation
2,310 ft (700 m)
Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
 • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP code
25868
Area code(s)304 & 681
GNIS feature ID1554994[1]

Lookout is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. Lookout is located on U.S. Route 60, 7.5 miles (12.1 km) east of Fayetteville. Lookout has a post office with ZIP code 25868.[2]

The community was so named because Indians used the elevated town site to look out over the surrounding area.[3]

  1. ^ "US Board on Geographic Names". United States Geological Survey. October 25, 2007. Retrieved January 31, 2008.
  2. ^ ZIP Code Lookup
  3. ^ Kenny, Hamill (1945). West Virginia Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning, Including the Nomenclature of the Streams and Mountains. Piedmont, WV: The Place Name Press. p. 384.