Lindytown, West Virginia

Lindytown
Unincorporated community
Lindytown Show map of West Virginia Lindytown Show map of the US Location within the state of West Virginia
Coordinates: 37°54′35″N 81°36′08″W / 37.90972°N 81.60222°W / 37.90972; -81.60222Coordinates: 37°54′35″N 81°36′08″W / 37.90972°N 81.60222°W / 37.90972; -81.60222
Country	United States
State	West Virginia
County	Boone
Time zone	Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)

Lindytown is an unincorporated community in Boone County, West Virginia, United States.^[1] Lindytown was founded at the time Charles A. Lindbergh made his famous flight across the Atlantic and is based on a 50-acre (200,000 m²) tract of land. Lindytown is approximately 22 miles (35 km) from Madison. Lindytown is accessible from Boone County Route 26, which is located right off of West Virginia Route 85 at the Van Bridge split.

The community has also been known as "Robin Hood" to locals due to the former Armco Robin Hood Division Coal Operations mines which was located in the area. Armco sold the Robinhood Division to Peabody Coal and eventually the mines were closed and the land was reclaimed.

Lindytown has received a lot of media attention due to the town being located in close proximity of a large mountain top removal operation owned by Alpha Natural Resources (previously Massey Energy). Only five houses remain in the community while the rest of the houses and even the church were destroyed by bulldozers.^[2]

Lindytown had one church: Twilight Church of Christ which is now destroyed.

Van Elementary School and Van Junior/Senior High School, located 9 miles (14 km) from Bandytown, are the closest public schools.

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Municipalities and communities of Boone County, West Virginia, United States

County seat: Madison

City	Madison

Towns	Danville Sylvester Whitesville

CDPs	Comfort Greenview Racine Twilight Van

Unincorporated communities	Altman Andrew Ashford Bald Knob Bandytown Barrett Bigson Bim Bloomingrose Blue Pennant Bob White Bradley Breece Brush Creek Brushton Cameo Cazy Clinton Clothier Coopertown Dartmont Dodson Junction Easly Eden Elk Run Junction Emmons‡ Foch Foster Fosterville Garrison Gordon Greenwood Havana Hewett High Coal Hopkins Fork Horse Creek Junction Janie Jeffrey Joes Creek Julian Keith Kirbyton Kohlsaat Lanta Lindytown Low Gap Manila Marnie Marthatown Maxine Milltown Morrisvale Nellis Nelson Orgas Ottawa Peytona Pondco Powell Creek Prenter Price Hill Quinland Ramage Ridgeview Rock Creek Rumble Secoal Sharlow South Madison Seth Stark Turtle Creek Uneeda Washington Heights Wharton Williams Mountain

Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties

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