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In the U.S. state of West Virginia, U.S. Route 40 (US 40) runs for 16 miles (26 km) through the Northern Panhandle region. The highway enters the state on the Military Order of the Purple Heart bridge concurrent with US 250, crossing Wheeling Island, before joining Interstate 70 (I-70) over the Fort Henry Bridge before leaving the interstate.
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]
WV 40 — — — — 1922: 1931 WV 41: 64.8: 104.3 Beckley: Calvin: 1922: current WV 42: 40.7: 65.5 West of Petersburg: Maryland state line 1922: current WV 43 — — — — 1922: 1940 Became part of WV 39 to match Virginia (which had renumbered its side from SR 501 to SR 39); the original plan was to renumber this road as WV 501, but West ...
The route additionally co-signs with Interstate 70 and crosses the Ohio River on the Fort Henry Bridge in Wheeling, West Virginia. U.S. Route 250 then exits I-70 east of the Wheeling Tunnel and joins West Virginia Route 2 one mile (1.6 km) later. In Moundsville, West Virginia, the route leaves WV 2 and departs toward Cameron, Mannington, and ...
West Virginia Route 39 (WV 39) is an east–west state highway in West Virginia. The western terminus of the route is at U.S. Route 60 and West Virginia Route 16 in Gauley Bridge . The eastern terminus is at the Virginia state line four miles (6.4 km) east of Minnehaha Springs , where WV 39 continues east into Virginia as State Route 39 .
View north along WV 41 at US 19 in Summersville WV 41 in Prince WV 41 crosses the New River at the Thomas Burford Pugh Memorial Bridge near Prince. West Virginia Route 41 (WV 41) is a 64.8-mile-long (104.3 km) north–south state highway in the central part of the U.S. state of West Virginia. Its southern terminus is at WV 210 in Beckley.
View north along WV 88 at US 250 in Limestone. West Virginia Route 88 is a north–south state highway located within the northern panhandle of West Virginia. The southern terminus is at U.S. Route 250 in Limestone. The northern terminus is at West Virginia Route 27 five miles (8 km) east of Wellsburg and 400 yards (370 m) west of the ...
Wikipedia: Map data/Wikipedia KML/U.S. Route 40 in West Virginia