MAN
KISTLER
CROWN
ACCOVILLE
BRAEHOLM
BECCO
AMHERSTDALE
ROBINETTE
LATROBE
CRITES
STOWE
LUNDALE
CRANECO
LORADO
PARDEE
SAUNDERS

The village was established in 1910 and the name came from the first letters of Crane and Cole, a Cincinnati lumber company. It was a originally a railroad freight station for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railroad. (Doutt, Logan County, p. 27; Kenny, WV Place Names, p. 190)

There were no known fatalities in Craneco from the Buffalo Creek Flood.