Jere, West Virginia

Unincorporated community in West Virginia

39°40′01″N 80°02′07″W / 39.66694°N 80.03528°W / 39.66694; -80.03528Country

United StatesState

West VirginiaCounty

MonongaliaElevation

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286 m (938 ft)Time zoneUTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) • Summer (DST)UTC-4 (EDT)Area code(s)304 & 681GNIS feature ID1554804^[1]Other namesScottsdale^[1]

Jere is an unincorporated community in Monongalia County, West Virginia, United States.

The community's name most likely is derived from Jeremiah.^[2]

In her efforts to improve living conditions in the area during the 1930s, First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt wrote, "I took many, many people to see this village of Jere, West Virginia, along Scott's Run, for it was a good example of what absentee ownership could do as far as human beings were concerned."^[3]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Jere, West Virginia. Retrieved on 2008-06-28.
^ Kenny, Hamill (1945). West Virginia Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning, Including the Nomenclature of the Streams and Mountains. Piedmont, WV: The Place Name Press. p. 335.
^ Cook, Blanche Wiesen (1999). Eleanor Roosevelt, Volume Two 1933–1938. Viking Press. p. 132. ISBN 0-670-84498-5.