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Landforms of Pocahontas County, West Virginia (3 C, 2 P) Landforms of Preston County, West Virginia (2 C, 6 P) Landforms of Putnam County, West Virginia (1 C) R.
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]
West Virginia portal; Subcategories. This category has the following 18 subcategories, out of 18 total. Landforms of West Virginia by county (57 C) ...
West Virginia is the only state where death rates exceed birth rates. During 2010–2013, about 21,000 babies per year were born in West Virginia, but over these three years West Virginia had 3,000 more deaths than births. [151]
An Appalachian New Deal: West Virginia in the Great Depression (West Virginia University Press, 1998) 316 pp. ISBN 978-1-933202-51-8; Trotter Jr., Joe William. Coal, Class, and Color: Blacks in Southern West Virginia, 1915–32 (1990) William, John Alexander. West Virginia and the Captains of Industry (1976), economic history of late 19th century.
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The population density was 9.3 inhabitants per square mile (3.6/km 2). There were 8,847 housing units at an average density of 9.4 units per square mile (3.6 units/km 2). [20] The racial makeup of the county was 97.8% white, 0.7% black or African American, 0.2% American Indian, 0.2% from other races, and 1.0% from two or more races.
The West Virginia State Folk Festival is held each June. Glenville State University has a community activity center, a state-of-the-art library, and a complete collection of hand-carved, West Virginia–native birds on public display. The Gilmer County Recreation Center Complex includes a small golf course, a convention / reunion hall, and bunk ...