Teays | |
|---|---|
  Teays Location within the state of West Virginia  Teays Teays (the United States) | |
| Coordinates: 38°26′30″N 81°57′10″W / 38.44167°N 81.95278°W | |
| Country | United States |
| State | West Virginia |
| County | Putnam |
| Time zone | UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) |
| • Summer (DST) | UTC-4 (EDT) |
| ZIP codes | 25569 |
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.[1]
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.[2]
