Given is an unincorporated community in southwestern Jackson County, West Virginia, United States. It lies at the intersection of Rock Castle, Shamblin Run, and Wolfe Creek Roads, south of the city of Ripley, the county seat of Jackson County.DeLorme. West Virginia Atlas & Gazetteer. 4th ed. Yarmouth: DeLorme, 2007, p. 33, 43. . Its elevation is 689 feet (210 m)., Geographic Names Information System, 1980-06-27. Accessed 2008-05-31. Although Given is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 25245.Zip Code Lookup
The community most likely was named after the local Given family.
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