Quick, West Virginia
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Quick is a small unincorporated community
in Kanawha County, West Virginia
, United States
. It is located along Indian Creek Road (County Route 49). The community is where Whitoak Fork and Blue Creek come together and meet. It is also where the abandoned railroad that follows Blue Creek joins the road, and follows it all the way to the community of Hitop, along Pond Fork.
The community includes a church and community center, and a few other small community places.
Quick Community Center was originally a junior high school in the 1940's. In the early 1960's, Quick Junior High became Quick Elementary and it housed students from grades 1 to 3. In the early 1980's the elementary school was closed. It was a few years afterward that the build was utilized as a community center.
The Quick Community Cemetery is part of a tract of land owned by the Flint Family and heirs. It has always been free to bury there and it always will be free.
Quick Road was built and upgraded during the Great Depression by the WPA Program.
Part of the Atomic Bomb that ended WW2 was constructed in Carbide Hollow and guarded by the U.S. Army.
Unincorporated area
In law, an unincorporated area is a region of land that is not a part of any municipality.To "incorporate" in this context means to form a municipal corporation, a city, town, or village with its own government. An unincorporated community is usually not subject to or taxed by a municipal government...
in Kanawha County, West Virginia
West Virginia
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, United States
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. It is located along Indian Creek Road (County Route 49). The community is where Whitoak Fork and Blue Creek come together and meet. It is also where the abandoned railroad that follows Blue Creek joins the road, and follows it all the way to the community of Hitop, along Pond Fork.
The community includes a church and community center, and a few other small community places.
Quick Community Center was originally a junior high school in the 1940's. In the early 1960's, Quick Junior High became Quick Elementary and it housed students from grades 1 to 3. In the early 1980's the elementary school was closed. It was a few years afterward that the build was utilized as a community center.
Etymology
Quick gets its name from one of the early families that lived there (early 1900's). Some members of the Quick family are buried at Quick Community Cemetery.The Quick Community Cemetery is part of a tract of land owned by the Flint Family and heirs. It has always been free to bury there and it always will be free.
Quick Road was built and upgraded during the Great Depression by the WPA Program.
Part of the Atomic Bomb that ended WW2 was constructed in Carbide Hollow and guarded by the U.S. Army.