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Nitro is a city in Kanawha and Putnam counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia. It takes its name from a World War I era nitrocellulose plant. The population was 6,618 according to the 2020 census. [ 2 ]
Map of the United States with West Virginia highlighted. 2023 Rank City Type ... Nitro: City 6,426 6,624 −2.99%: Kanawha Putnam: 23: Ranson: Corporation 5,699 5,433
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East Nitro (the United States) Show map of the United States Coordinates: 38°23′59″N 81°50′10″W / 38.39972°N 81.83611°W / 38.39972; -81
English: Labelled map of Royal Mail postcode districts of the WV postcode area. Indicative postcode districts shown in red, post towns shown in grey. Equirectangular projection with latitude stretching 160%, WGS84 datum. Geographic limits: Main 1:166,000 map: West: 2.638W; East: 1.998W; North: 52.713N; South: 52.393N
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 Route 25 is an east–west state highway located within the counties of Kanawha and Putnam in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The western terminus of the route is at West Virginia Route 62 in Rock Branch (unincorporated) between the towns of Nitro and Poca. The eastern terminus is at U.S. Route 60 in Charleston.
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 .