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Grant County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 10,976. [1] Its county seat is Petersburg. [2] The county was created from Hardy County in 1866 and named for Civil War General and the 18th president of the United States Ulysses S. Grant.
English: This is a locator map showing Grant County in West Virginia. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date: 12 February 2006:
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]
Petersburg is a city in Grant County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 2,251 at the 2020 census. [ 3 ] It is the county seat of Grant 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]
Towns in Grant County, West Virginia (1 P) U. Unincorporated communities in Grant County, West Virginia (32 P)
Protected areas of Grant County, West Virginia (6 P) Pages in category "Geography of Grant County, West Virginia" The following 2 pages are in this category, out of 2 total.
The original county seat of Grant County, Maysville is an unincorporated community on North Fork Lunice Creek in Grant County, West Virginia, United States. The community lies at the eastern approach of Mays Gap in Knobly Mountain along West Virginia Route 42. The community's name is derived from the local Mays or Mayse family. [3]