Place:Teays, Putnam, West Virginia, United States

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NameTeays
Alt namesTeayessource: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS54019052
Teaysesource: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS54019052
Teazessource: USGS, GNIS Digital Gazetteer (1994) GNIS54019052
TypeInhabited place
Coordinates38.433°N 81.95°W
Located inPutnam, West Virginia, United States
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Teays, written Seays until circa 1884, is an unincorporated community in Putnam County, West Virginia, United States. The town is centered on the former general store / post office on Teays Lane, which sits across from the site of the Teays railroad depot, which was demolished in the mid-1900s.

Teays is a namesake and part of the census-designated place of Teays Valley, which was in turn named for Thomas Teays, a hunter and trapper who once spent a considerable amount of time in the vicinity.

Geologist William G. Tight (1865–1910) named the preglacial Teays River after Teays, which lies in the "riverless" Teays Valley that once was the bottom of the river.

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