Piedmont, West Virginia | |
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Town of Piedmont | |
Coordinates: 39°28′49″N 79°02′53″W / 39.48028°N 79.04806°W | |
Country | United States |
State | West Virginia |
County | Mineral |
Government | |
• Type | Mayor/Council |
• Mayor | Paula Boggs [1] |
Area | |
• Total | 0.38 sq mi (0.99 km2) |
• Land | 0.38 sq mi (0.99 km2) |
• Water | 0.00 sq mi (0.00 km2) |
Elevation | 1,201 ft (366 m) |
Population | |
• Total | 716 |
• Estimate (2021)[3] | 707 |
• Density | 2,104.99/sq mi (812.16/km2) |
Time zone | UTC-5 (EST) |
• Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
ZIP code | 26750 |
Area code | 304 |
FIPS code | 54-63604[4] |
GNIS feature ID | 2391360[5] |
Website | local |
Piedmont is a town in Mineral County, West Virginia, United States. It is part of the Cumberland, MD-WV metropolitan statistical area. The population was 716 at the 2020 census.[3] Piedmont was chartered in 1856 and the town is the subject of Colored People: A Memoir[6] by Piedmont native Henry Louis Gates Jr.