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List of counties in West Virginia. The U.S. state of West Virginia has 55 counties. Fifty of them existed at the time of the Wheeling Convention in 1861, during the American Civil War, when those counties seceded from the Commonwealth of Virginia to form the new state of West Virginia. [ 1] West Virginia was admitted as a separate state of the ...
Largest municipalities in West Virginia by population. Charleston, the capital of West Virginia and its most populous city. Huntington. Parkersburg. Morgantown. Wheeling. Martinsburg. Fairmont. Beckley.
Mason County, West Virginia (7 C, 5 P, 1 F) McDowell County, West Virginia (6 C, 8 P) Mercer County, West Virginia (7 C, 12 P, 1 F) Mineral County, West Virginia (8 C, 13 P, 1 F) Mingo County, West Virginia (8 C, 11 P) Monongalia County, West Virginia (8 C, 7 P, 1 F)
List of West Virginia state parks. Babcock State Park located along the New River Gorge. There are 37 state parks in the U.S. state of West Virginia as of 2017. [ a] The West Virginia Division of Natural Resources (WVDNR) Parks and Recreation Section is the governing body for all 37 state parks and directly operates all but one of them.
Cities in Marion County, West Virginia (1 C, 3 P) Cities in Marshall County, West Virginia (2 C, 6 P) Cities in Mason County, West Virginia (1 C, 1 P)
West Virginians have a life expectancy of four years less than the national average. However, two (out of 55) West Virginia counties have life expectancies exceeding the national average. A few West Virginia counties also exceed the U.S. national average for income, population growth rate, education, and have a lower rate of poverty.
This is a list of school districts in West Virginia, sorted in an alphabetical order. Since 1933, all public school districts in the U.S. state of West Virginia have, by law, exactly followed the county boundaries .
The following are approximate tallies of current listings by county. These counts are based on entries in the National Register Information Database as of April 24, 2008 [2] and new weekly listings posted since then on the National Register of Historic Places web site. [3]