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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 ...
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)
2022 Rank City Type 2022 Estimate [1] 2020 Census Change County 1: Charleston †† City 47,129 48,864 −3.55%: Kanawha: 2: Huntington † City 45,746 46,842
Formed from Botetourt, Roanoke, Giles, and Monroe (in present-day West Virginia) Counties: Robert Craig, U.S. Representative from Virginia 4,843: 330 sq mi (855 km 2) Culpeper County: 047: Culpeper: 1749: Culpeper County was established in 1749 from Orange County, Virginia. Thomas Colepeper, 2nd Baron Colepeper, colonial proprietary governor ...
This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of West Virginia. List of West Virginia rivers includes streams formally designated as rivers. There are also smaller streams (i.e., branches, creeks, drains, forks, licks, runs, etc.) in the state. Exclusive of major tributaries, there are about 46 named rivers in West Virginia.
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The following is an alphabetical list of members of the United States House of Representatives from the state of West Virginia. For chronological tables of members of both houses of the United States Congress from the state (through the present day), see United States congressional delegations from West Virginia. The list of names should be ...
There are 120 countiesin the U.S. Commonwealthof Kentucky. Despite ranking 37th in size by area, Kentucky has 120 counties, fourth among states (including Virginia's independent cities).[1] The original motivation for having so many counties was to ensure that residents in the days of poor roads and horseback travel could make a round trip from ...