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The Potomac Highlands of West Virginia (/ p ə ˈ t oʊ m ə k / ⓘ), or simply the Potomac Highlands, centers on five West Virginian counties (Grant, Hampshire, Hardy, Mineral, and Pendleton) in the upper Potomac River watershed in the western portion of the state's eastern panhandle, bordering Maryland and Virginia.
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]
Southern West Virginia contains the largest reserve supply of timber. In the Ridge-and-Valley region of the Appalachian Mountains , the Eastern Panhandle and Potomac Highlands have a forest covering similar to that of the plateau region, however between these two areas of hardwood there is a long belt where spruce and white pine cover the ...
Southern West Virginia has coal mining heritage and Southern affinity, including being part of the Bible Belt. 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 .
Potomac Highlands 13 Greenbrier: 46 New River/Greenbrier Valley 14 Hampshire: 28 Potomac Highlands 15 Hancock: 11 Northern Panhandle 16 Hardy: 25 Potomac Highlands 17 Harrison: 22 Mountaineer Country 18 Jackson: 10 Mid-Ohio Valley 19 Jefferson: 86 Eastern Panhandle 20 Kanawha: 90 Metro Valley 21 Lewis: 13 Mountain Lakes 22 Lincoln: 2 Metro ...
The Appalachian Highlands is the name of one of the ... This same plateau is known as the Cumberland Plateau in southern West Virginia, ... West Virginia University ...
The Monongahela National Forest is a national forest located in the Allegheny Mountains of eastern West Virginia, US.It protects over 921,000 acres (3,727 km 2; 1,439 sq mi) of federally managed land within a 1,700,000 acres (6,880 km 2; 2,656 sq mi) proclamation boundary that includes much of the Potomac Highlands Region and portions of 10 counties.
The mostly completed Allegheny Trail, a project of the West Virginia Scenic Trails Association since 1975, runs the length of the range within West Virginia. The northern terminus is at the Mason–Dixon line and the southern is at the West Virginia-Virginia border on Peters Mountain. [7]