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Jeffrey, West Virginia

human settlement in Boone County, West Virginia, United States of America

Architectural plans, a scale model, maps and brass measuring instruments
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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionApr 1, 2026
Entity authorityQ6175793 ↗
Source-derived summary

Jeffrey is an unincorporated community and coal town in Boone County, West Virginia, United States. Jeffrey is located on West Virginia Route 17, 5 miles (8.0 km) south of Madison. Jeffrey has a post office with ZIP code 25114. Jeffrey Is located along the Spruce/Laurel River.

Editorial summary

Begin with the source’s own compact description: “Jeffrey, West Virginia” is human settlement in Boone County, West Virginia, United States of America. The dossier treats that line as a proposition to test through Jeffrey, West and Virginia, not as a finished interpretation.

Editorial reviewA valuable geographic starting point for tracing changing names, boundaries, uses and administrative responsibility. The current 46-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. For this dossier, Jeffrey, West and Virginia is the immediate research focus.
Editorial analysis

Why this record matters

The phrase “human settlement in Boone County, West Virginia, United States of America” supplies a clear boundary for inquiry. It also exposes the unanswered questions: who defined that boundary, when it became stable and which sources sit outside it.

Evidence profile

Maps, plans, fabric surveys and administrative records can establish how the site’s name, extent and function changed over time. The source revision retrieved here is dated Apr 1, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6175793. Authority coordinates are 37.971, -81.821. 1 of 1 selected statements include explicit references; 0 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank.

Critical limits

Architectural summaries often privilege surviving fabric and can understate demolished phases, contested use or displaced communities. The lead is largely declarative, so disagreement and counter-evidence require a deliberate search beyond the opening account. Authority statements aid reconciliation but still require their own references, qualifiers and ranks to be checked.

How to read it

Treat names, boundaries and functions as historically changeable. Maps, plans, inventories and administrative records can clarify what the place meant at different dates.

Best used for
  • Historic place names
  • Jurisdictional context
  • Routes into maps and plans
Verify next

Contemporary maps, plans, listed-building records, estate papers and the responsible local or national archive.

Three-step research path

  1. Establish the record: confirm the title “Jeffrey, West Virginia”, its source revision and the description used here.
  2. Expand the search: follow Jeffrey, West Virginia primary sources, Jeffrey, West Virginia archive and Jeffrey research across catalogues and specialist indexes.
  3. Test the account: compare the strongest cited source with the responsible institution’s current record and note any disagreement.

Questions for further research

  1. Which source most directly establishes the central claim about “Jeffrey, West Virginia”?
  2. What physical evidence or contemporary plan supports the description?
  3. Which authority defined the place, boundary or structure at the relevant date?
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Source & attribution

This entry incorporates text from “Jeffrey, West Virginia” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.