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Onie, West Virginia

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Country
  
United States

County
  
Wetzel

GNIS ID
  
1717809

State
  
West Virginia

Time zone
  
Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)

Elevation
  
275 m

Onie, West Virginia

Weather
  
17°C, Wind SW at 10 km/h, 60% Humidity

Onie was an unincorporated community in Wetzel County, West Virginia. It was also known as Unie.

Near Wileyville, Onie was located at the mouth of Honey Run which is a tributary of Little Fishing Creek. Although this town appeared on a few maps, Onie disappeared shortly after it first appeared. According to local memories, Onie had a bar, a blacksmith, and a hotel.

Around 1900, Onie was an oil boom town. Oil production peaked in West Virginia by 1900, when the state ranked second in oil production, and Onie declined after that. As of 2008, East Resources still had a field office and wells at this location, but the fields had been used for hay instead of oil for a long time after Onie vanished.

References

Onie, West Virginia Wikipedia