Kanawha Falls, West Virginia

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|settlement_type = Unincorporated community

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|subdivision_name1 = West Virginia

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|subdivision_name2 = Fayette

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|timezone = Eastern (EST)

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|timezone_DST = EDT

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|postal_code_type = ZIP code

|postal_code = 25115{{cite web|url=http://tools.usps.com/go/ZipLookupAction!input.action|title=USPS - Look Up a ZIP Code|access-date=2012-02-15|author=United States Postal Service|year=2012}}

|area_code = 304 & 681

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|blank_info = 1554842{{gnis|1554842}}

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Kanawha Falls is an unincorporated community in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. Kanawha Falls is located on the east bank of the Kanawha River, {{convert|2|mi|km}} southwest of Gauley Bridge and {{convert|0.6|mi|km}} downstream from the waterfall of the same name. Kanawha Falls had a post office, which opened on March 26, 1856, and closed on November 2, 2002.{{cite web|title=Postmaster Finder - Post Offices by ZIP Code|url=http://webpmt.usps.gov/pmt008.cfm|publisher=United States Postal Service|access-date=September 26, 2011|archive-date=October 17, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201017172656/https://webpmt.usps.gov/pmt008.cfm|url-status=dead}}

Gallery

Image:Kanawha Falls WV 2022.jpg|Kanawha Falls in 2022

Image:Kanawha Falls Post Office.jpg|Kanawha Falls Post Office in 2015

Image:Kanawha Falls Pano-27527.jpg|Kanawha Falls on the Kanawha River at Glen Ferris, WV

References

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{{Fayette County, West Virginia}}

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Category:Unincorporated communities in Fayette County, West Virginia

Category:Unincorporated communities in West Virginia

Category:Populated places on the Kanawha River

Category:West Virginia placenames of Native American origin

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