Editing Harts, West Virginia (section)

==Geography==
Harts is located in southern Lincoln County at {{coord|38|1|50|N|82|7|41|W|type:city}} (38.030643, -82.128147).<ref name="CenPopGazetteer2020" /> [[West Virginia Route 10]] passes through the center of the community, following the Guyandotte River. The highway leads northwest (downstream) {{convert|44|mi}} to [[Huntington, West Virginia|Huntington]] and southeast (upstream) {{convert|10|mi|0}} to [[Chapmanville, West Virginia|Chapmanville]].

According to the [[United States Census Bureau]], the Harts CDP has a total area of {{convert|24.1|sqkm|order=flip}}, of which {{convert|23.8|sqkm|order=flip}} are land and {{convert|0.3|sqkm|order=flip|1}}, or 1.44%, are water.<ref name="CenPopGazetteer2020"/>

The census area includes both Big Harts Creek and Little Harts Creek. The West Fork of Big Harts Creek is often misidentified as "East Fork" on maps and in deeds. However, the West Fork was named for a man by the name of West, not the direction of the creek.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kenny|first=Hamill|title=West Virginia Place Names: Their Origin and Meaning, Including the Nomenclature of the Streams and Mountains|url=https://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=mdp.39015009099824;view=1up;seq=690;size=125|year=1945|publisher=The Place Name Press|location=Piedmont, WV|page=666}}</ref>