Spice is an unincorporated community located in Pocahontas

 Spice is an unincorporated community located in Pocahontas County, West Virginia, United States

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. It is situated on U.S. Route 219, 3.5 miles (5.6 km) southwest of Hillsboro

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. Spice was the location of a post office that operated from 1912 to 1943

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. There is also a wilderness area called Spice Run Wilderness located within the Monongahela National Forest of West Virginia

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. The Spice Run Lumber Company created a logging boom town in the area that harvested stands of timber to float down the Greenbrier River for the sawmills

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. The Spice Run was named after a native shrub, Lindera benzoin, known as "spicebush" or "spicewood"

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. The area has no passenger car access

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.Spice Run Wilderness is a 6,030-acre wilderness area located within the Monongahela National Forest of West Virginia

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. The area is about 2 miles in length and 3.5 miles wide

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. It was designated as a wilderness area in 2009 along with several other areas of Monongahela National Forest

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. The area has no passenger car access

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. The Spice Run Lumber Company created a logging boom town in the area that harvested stands of timber to float down the Greenbrier River for the sawmills

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. The logging was so extensive that the waterways were choked

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. The US Forest Service acquired the land in the early 1920s and added it to the Monongahela National Forest

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. The area was completely logged off in the early 1900s

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. The wilderness area is named after a native shrub, Lindera benzoin, known as "spicebush" or "spicewood"

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