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Little Italy, West Virginia
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 38°47′39″N 79°32′57″W / 38.79417°N 79.54917°W / 38.79417; -79.54917
Country	United States
State	West Virginia
County	Randolph
Elevation	2,858 ft (871 m)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
Area code(s)	304 & 681
GNIS feature ID	1554964

Little Italy is an unincorporated community in Randolph County, West Virginia, United States. Little Italy is located on Gandy Creek and County Route 29/5, 1.3 miles (2.1 km) south of Whitmer and 18.5 miles (29.8 km) east-southeast of Elkins.

A large share of the early settlers being natives of Italy caused the name to be selected.

References

1. ^ U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: Little Italy, Randolph County, West Virginia
2. Randolph County, West Virginia General Highway Map (PDF) (Map). West Virginia Department of Transportation. 2011. p. 4. Archived from the original (PDF) on April 25, 2012. Retrieved March 20, 2012.
3. Mockridge, Norton (April 22, 1971). "West Virginia Takes Name Prize". Toledo Blade. p. 29. Retrieved May 21, 2015.

v t e Municipalities and communities of Randolph County, West Virginia, United States
County seat: Elkins
City	Elkins
Towns	Beverly Harman Huttonsville Mill Creek Montrose Womelsdorf (Coalton)
CDPs	Bowden Dailey East Dailey Helvetia Norton Pickens Valley Bend Valley Head Whitmer
Other communities	Adolph Aggregates Alpena Arnold Hill Bemis Blue Spring Brady Gate Bruxton Canfield Cassity Cheat Bridge Cubana Crystal Springs Czar Dry Fork Elkwater Ellamore‡ Evenwood Fairview (near Elkins) Fairview (near Helvetia) Faulkner Flint Glady Harding Hazelwood Horton Jimtown Job Kerens Lee Bell Little Italy Loda Mabie Mingo Monterville Newlonton Pumpkintown Read Silica Spangler Sullivan Sully Suncrest Tigheville Upper Mingo Weaver Weese Whyte Wymer
Ghost towns	Kuntzville Lumber Montes Osceola Perlytown
Footnotes	‡This populated place also has portions in an adjacent county or counties
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v t e Little Italy locations by city
United States	Atlantic City Baltimore Boston Bridgeport Chicago Armour Square Cleveland Connellsville Independence Jersey City New Haven New York City Arthur Avenue, Bronx Morris Park, Bronx Bensonhurst, Brooklyn Carroll Gardens, Brooklyn Dyker Heights, Brooklyn Little Italy, Manhattan Mulberry Street Italian Harlem, Manhattan Pleasant Avenue Ozone Park, Queens Howard Beach, Queens Newark Omaha Paterson Philadelphia Italian Market Pittsburgh Providence St. Louis San Diego San Francisco Syracuse Trenton Chambersburg West Virginia (Clay County) West Virginia (Randolph County) Wilmington Yonkers
Canada	Edmonton Montreal Ottawa Toronto Corso Italia Vancouver Windsor Winnipeg
Australia	Melbourne

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