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English: This is a locator map showing Upshur County in West Virginia. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date: 12 February 2006:
Upshur County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 23,816. [2] Its county seat is Buckhannon. [3] The county was formed in 1851 from Randolph, Barbour, and Lewis counties and named for Abel Parker Upshur, a distinguished statesman and jurist of Virginia. [4]
Buckhannon is the only incorporated city in, and the county seat of, Upshur County, West Virginia, United States. [5] Located along the Buckhannon River, the population was 5,299 as of the 2020 census. [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]
French Creek is an unincorporated community in Upshur County, West Virginia, United States. [2] French Creek is 9½ miles south of the county seat, Buckhannon, on West Virginia Route 20. It is home to the West Virginia State Wildlife Center — formerly the "French Creek Game Farm" — a zoological park featuring native and introduced fauna.
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Upshur 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]
Alton is an unincorporated community on the Buckhannon River in Upshur County, West Virginia, United States.. Alton is located at the junction of County Routes 32 and 11/9. The community was originally known as Pringles Mill after the local Pringle family, descendants of John and Samuel Pringle.
Excelsior is an unincorporated community in Upshur County, West Virginia, United States. It is located on County Route 151 along the Left Fork of Sand Run.