Blood, Trauma, and Biohazard Cleanup in Kimball, WV

Kimball is an incorporated town in McDowell County, West Virginia.

Kimball was incorporated in 1911 and named for Frederick J. Kimball, a railroad official.

The 2020 census counted 145 residents in Kimball, down from 194 at the 2010 census.

The 2020 census counted 77 housing units in the town; the 2010 census recorded 78 households.

Kimball is a majority African American community; Black residents alone made up about 54 percent of its population at the 2020 census.

Kimball is the site of the first war memorial building erected in the United States in memory of the African-American veterans of World War I.

On July 18, 1919, an explosion at the Carswell coal mine in Kimball killed six miners, while 215 other men who had been trapped underground were rescued alive.

Kimball's population peaked at 1,630 in the 1910 census.

In 1995 Kimball became the smallest town in the United States with a Kmart store; after that store closed in 2003, a Walmart superstore on the site operated from 2005 to 2016 as the town's largest employer.

The town is home to the Five Loaves and Two Fishes food bank, whose hydropanel system can produce about 950 gallons of clean drinking water each month.