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The Bureau identified 169 CDPs in the state of West Virginia at the 2010 census. The Municipal Code of West Virginia, which governs incorporation, requires applicant municipal corporations (places for incorporation) that cover an area more than 1 square mile (2.6 km 2) to have a minimum of 500 inhabitants or freeholders per square mile, and ...
The Fayette County Public Library houses microfilm records of census records from 1840 to 1930, newspapers from 1906-present, WV county death, marriage, and birth records, Fayette County yearbooks, local magazines, family collections, the West Virginia Collection, and other miscellaneous collections about West Virginia. [11]
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]
On July 21, 2023, the OMB delineated five combined statistical areas, 10 metropolitan statistical areas, and five micropolitan statistical areas in West Virginia. [1] As of 2023, the largest of these is the Charleston-Huntington-Ashland, WV-OH-KY CSA , which includes West Virginia's capital and largest city, Charleston .
Pages in category "Census-designated places in West Virginia" The following 163 pages are in this category, out of 163 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
As of the 2020 census, the population was 7,408, [1] making it West Virginia's fifth-least populous county. Its county seat is Glenville . [ 2 ] The county was formed in 1845 from parts of Lewis and Kanawha Counties, and named for Thomas Walker Gilmer , Governor of Virginia from 1840 to 1841.
That has spurred some working-age people to move away, giving West Virginia the largest population loss by percentage of any U.S. state from 2010 to 2020, according to census data.
Barbour County is a county in north central West Virginia, United States.At the 2020 census, the population was 15,465. [5] The county seat is Philippi, [6] which was chartered in 1844.