Straight Creek Church
Straight Creek Church is a Baptist church in WV 26138.
WV, 26138Straight Creek Church is part of the Baptist family of churches in The American Church Story. 774 congregations of the Baptist family gather across West Virginia — 71,872 across the United States on The Church Map.
Baptists pressed harder than anyone for religious liberty in America, and the freedom every other congregation on this map enjoys is partly what they won. They have carried believers' baptism and the priesthood of every believer to more of the world than almost anyone — and the Black Baptist church has repeatedly been the conscience of the whole nation.
Find Straight Creek Church on The Church Map, explore nearby congregations, and pray for its community.
The community around Straight Creek Church
It takes 5.9 miles in every direction to gather two thousand neighbors around this church. Among the people scattered across those miles, more than 5 in 10 the children here are growing up below the poverty line, and about a third describe their own health as fair or poor, and about 1 in 5 adults live with diabetes. A scattered parish is still a parish.
Pray for the families driving a long way to everything — to work, to a hospital, to this door on a Sunday morning.
- Child Poverty: 51.7% (36.3–67.0%)
- Fair/Poor Health Status: 32.0%
- Diabetes: 20.0%
- Obesity: 42.5%
- Social Isolation: 33.0%
- Depression: 30.8%
- Poverty Rate: 27.2% (17.0–37.3%)
- Food Insecurity: 20.5%
- Utility Shutoff Threat: 13.1%
- Unemployment: 6.2% (2.0–11.0%)
Source: U.S. Census Bureau, CDC PLACES (2019-2023, 2023), aggregated across 4 census tracts near this church.
Churches near Straight Creek Church
- Church of Christ — 0.4 mi away
- Mount Zion Church — 1.8 mi away
- Bethel Chapel — 2 mi away
- Twomile Church — 2.1 mi away
- Bell United Methodist Church — 2.5 mi away in Elizabeth, WV
- Hoy Chapel — 2.6 mi away
- Deem Chapel — 4 mi away
- Pleasant Valley Church — 4.3 mi away
- Prosperity Church — 4.7 mi away
- Brooksville Church — 5.1 mi away
More Baptist churches nearby
- Smithville Baptist Church — 5.3 mi away
- Pine Twist Baptist Church — 6.8 mi away in Elizabeth, WV
- Bethlehem Baptist Church — 9.7 mi away
- Hill Grove Baptist Church — 10.3 mi away
- Victory Baptist Church — 10.6 mi away