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Higby
Ghost town
Country	United States
State	West Virginia
County	Roane
Elevation	689 ft (210 m)
Time zone	Eastern (EST) (UTC-5)
• Summer (DST)	EDT (UTC-4)
GNIS ID	1740904

Higby is a ghost town in Roane County, West Virginia.

The town's name is a corruption of nearby Higly Creek.

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

County seat: Spencer

City	Spencer

Town	Reedy

Unincorporated communities	Alvord Amma Billings Bright Buffalo Lick Cicerone Clio Clover Cotton Countsville Depue Elana Flatfork Gandeeville Grace Graux Harmony Iola Jingo Kester Kettle Lattimer Leaning Oak Left Hand Linden Liverpool‡ Looneyville Morning Star Mount Olive Nancy Run Newton Osbornes Mills Otto Patsey Peniel Pigeon Red Knob Reedyville Roxalana Ryan Shad Slate Speed Stringtown Sunflower Tariff Triplett Uler Vicars Virgil Wallback‡ Walton Zona

Ghost towns	Higby July‡ Leo Mattie Pad Woodyard

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

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