Ceredo (W. Va.)

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Information for Authority record

Name (Hebrew)
סרדו (וירג'יניה המערבית)
Name (Latin)
Ceredo (W. Va.)
Coordinates
-82.56027778 -82.56027778 38.39333333 38.39333333 (gooearth )
W0823332 W0823332 N0382347 N0382347 (geonames )
Associated country
United States
MARC
MARC

Other Identifiers

VIAF: 139729899
Wikidata: Q2532299
Library of congress: n 97103817
Sources of Information
  • GeoNames, algorithmically matched, 2009(ppl; 38°23ʹ47ʺN 082°33ʹ32ʺW)
  • Directions Marketing Co. Map of Ceredo-Kenova, c1983.
  • Rand McNally comm. atlas, 1997(Ceredo, Wayne County)

Wikipedia description:

Ceredo is a town in Wayne County, West Virginia, United States, situated along the Ohio River. The population was 1,408 at the 2020 census. Ceredo is a part of the Huntington–Ashland, WV-KY-OH Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA). As of the 2000 census, the MSA had a population of 288,649. The city is also near the location of the Southern Airways Flight 932 aviation disaster. On November 14, 1970, a McDonnell Douglas DC-9 airplane carrying the Marshall University football team crashed on a hillside on approach to the Tri-State Airport, killing all 75 on board. A movie about the tragedy, We Are Marshall, was released in 2006.

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