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Marlowe is an unincorporated community on U.S. Route 11 in Berkeley County, West Virginia, United States. [ 1 ] Sites on the National Register of Historic Places located near Marlowe are: the Charles Downs II House , Harmony Cemetery , Marlowe Consolidated School , and Power Plant and Dam No. 5 .
As of the 2020 census, the county population was 122,076, [5] making it the second-most populous of West Virginia's 55 counties, behind Kanawha County. The City of Martinsburg is the county seat . History
2023 Rank City Type 2023 Estimate [1] 2020 Census Change County 1: Charleston †† City 46,838 48,864 −4.15%: Kanawha: 2: Huntington † City 45,325 46,842
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]
The Parkersburg–Vienna metropolitan area, officially the Parkersburg–Vienna, WV Metropolitan Statistical Area as defined by the United States Census Bureau, [1] is an area consisting of two counties in West Virginia, anchored by the cities of Parkersburg and Vienna.
Hagerstown–Martinsburg, MD–WV Metropolitan Statistical Area (MSA) covers an area of 1,019 square miles (2,640 km 2). The MSA is roughly bordered to the east by South Mountain , to the west by Sideling Hill , to the north by the Mason–Dixon line , and to the south by Northern Virginia .
Falling Waters is a census-designated place (CDP) on the Potomac River in Berkeley County, West Virginia, United States. It is located along Williamsport Pike ( US 11 ) north of Martinsburg . An 1887 Scientific American article claimed that the first U.S. railroad was built in Falling Waters in 1814.
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 .