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Lake, West Virginia
Lake, West Virginia
Unincorporated community
	Lake Lake
	Coordinates: 37°55′47″N 81°54′01″W / 37.92972°N 81.90028°W
Country	United States
State	West Virginia
County	Logan
Elevation	961 ft (293 m)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
ZIP code	25121
Area code(s)	304 & 681
GNIS feature ID	1541312

Lake is an unincorporated community in Logan County, West Virginia, United States. Lake is 4.5 miles (7.2 km) east-northeast of Mitchell Heights. Lake has a post office with ZIP code 25121.^[2]

The community was named after Nicholas Lake, the original owner of the town site.^[3] in 1863, after an executive order of Abraham Lincoln during the Civil War, he visited the town. ^[4]

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^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Lake, West Virginia
^ ZIP Code Lookup
^ Kenny, Hamill (1945). West Virginia Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning, Including the Nomenclature of the Streams and Mountains. Piedmont, WV: The Place Name Press. p. 357.
^ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 23, 2001. Retrieved February 4, 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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[gnis-1] U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Lake, West Virginia

[2] ZIP Code Lookup

[3] Kenny, Hamill (1945). West Virginia Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning, Including the Nomenclature of the Streams and Mountains. Piedmont, WV: The Place Name Press. p. 357.

[4] "Archived copy". Archived from the original on September 23, 2001. Retrieved February 4, 2013.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)

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Lake, West Virginia

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