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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 United States on June 20, 1863. [2]
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Unincorporated communities in West Virginia. It includes unincorporated communities that can also be found in the parent category, or in diffusing subcategories of the parent.
English: SVG Map of the State of West Virginia Counties (Forms the State) Date: 19 April 2011: Source: US Census Shapefiles and Own Work: Author: Gerald W. Reveal (Jerry)
The region is also closely identified with Southwestern Virginia and Eastern Kentucky, with close proximity to Western North Carolina and East Tennessee, which are all part of Appalachia and the Upland South. Southern West Virginia, in a cultural and historical context, includes Boone County, Fayette County, Greenbrier County, Lincoln County ...
In these counties, the new magisterial districts are used only for the allocation of county officials, and the collection of census data; the former magisterial districts continue to exist in the form of tax districts. [6] A List of the current and former magisterial districts of West Virginia, sorted by county: [1] [7]