The community most likely was named after the local McDowell Coal and Coke Company.[2]
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^U.S. Geological Survey Geographic Names Information System: McDowell, West Virginia
^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. 393.
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