Mount Lookout, West Virginia
unincorporated community in Nicholas County, West Virginia
Mt. Lookout is a small unincorporated community in Nicholas County, West Virginia, United States, 10 miles (16 km) south of Summersville.
Mount Lookout is located at 38°10′00″N 80°54′42″W (38.1667776, -80.9117644). It lies 1,965 feet (599 m) above sea level.
Mount Lookout's name is descriptive of the elevated town site.
Mount Lookout has a post office with the ZIP Code 26678. Post Office Box service is available as well as highway contract street delivery. As of 2016, there is (1) delivery route serving the community
Mount Lookout has (1) elementary school, Mt. Lookout Elementary, as well as a Head Start program. For many years there was (1) small general store, Kountry Mart, selling pop, bread, snacks, etc.
“Mount Lookout, West Virginia” enters the record as unincorporated community in Nicholas County, West Virginia. Crown Archives preserves that source wording while asking what Mount, Lookout and West can confirm, complicate or overturn.
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