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English: This is a locator map showing Ritchie County in West Virginia. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date: 12 February 2006:
Ritchie County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census , the population was 8,444. [ 1 ] Its county seat is Harrisville . [ 2 ]
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]
Smithville is an unincorporated community in southern Ritchie County, West Virginia, United States. It lies along West Virginia Route 47 south of the town of Harrisville, the county seat of Ritchie County. [1] Its elevation is 686 feet (209 m). [2] It has a post office with the ZIP code 26178. [3]
Mountain is located in extreme northeastern Ritchie County along West Virginia Route 74 and the Hughes River, 6.2 miles (10.0 km) north-northeast of Pennsboro. [2] The community was known as Mole Hill prior to 1949, when residents requested that the name be changed to Mountain [ 1 ] as part of a publicity stunt to literally make a mountain out ...
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Ritchie County, West Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a Google map. [1]
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]
West Virginia: County: Ritchie: Elevation. 715 ft (218 m) Time zone: UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) • Summer : UTC-4 (EDT) GNIS ID: 1549979 [1] Prunty is an unincorporated ...