Onie was an unincorporated community in Wetzel County, West Virginia. It was also known as Unie.

Onie
Unincorporated community
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Coordinates: 39°37′11″N 80°37′51″W
Country	United States
State	West Virginia
County	Wetzel
Elevation	902 ft (275 m)
Time zone	UTC-5 (Eastern (EST))
• Summer (DST)	UTC-4 (EDT)
GNIS ID	1717809[1]

Near Wileyville, Onie was located at the mouth of Honey Run which is a tributary of Little Fishing Creek.[2] Although this town appeared on a few maps, Onie disappeared shortly after it first appeared. According to local memories, Onie had a bar, a blacksmith, and a hotel.[2]

Around 1900, Onie was an oil boom town. Oil production peaked in West Virginia by 1900, when the state ranked second in oil production, and Onie declined after that.[2] As of 2008, East Resources still had a field office and wells at this location, but the fields had been used for hay instead of oil for a long time after Onie vanished.

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