Thomas is a city and former coal town in Tucker County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 623 at the 2020 census. Thomas …Thomas is a city and former coal town in Tucker County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 623 at the 2020 census. Thomas was platted in 1884. Thomas was named for Thomas Beall Davis, brother of Senator Henry Gassaway Davis. The Davis brothers, in 1883, opened a mine near Thomas and had coal ready to ship when their railway arrived a year later. By 1892, Davis Coal and Coke was among the largest and best known coal companies in the world and employed 1,600 people. At the peak of its operations in 1915, there were nine producing mines within a mile of the company's office in Thomas.
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