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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]
Online collection of all digital USGS 1:24K scale topographic maps (as well as various other GIS data) covering the United States, available as a free download. NPScape United States Department of the Interior National Park Service NPScape is a landscape dynamics monitoring project that provides landscape-level data, tools, and evaluations for ...
Map of the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. Module:Location map/data/USA West Virginia Eastern Panhandle is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map ...
The origin of this moniker is unknown. Tom Whittico, the founder and first editor of The McDowell Times—the first African-American paper in West Virginia—said he used it because African Americans had greater electoral power, civil freedoms, and freedom from segregation in McDowell County than in other locations in the state. [11]
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 .
Module:Location map/data/USA West Virginia is a location map definition used to overlay markers and labels on an equirectangular projection map of West Virginia. The markers are placed by latitude and longitude coordinates on the default map or a similar map image.
Barbour County is a county in north central West Virginia, United States.At the 2020 census, the population was 15,465. [5] The county seat is Philippi, [6] which was chartered in 1844.
Harrison County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 65,921, making it West Virginia's 7th most populous county. [1] [2] Its county seat is Clarksburg. [3] Harrison County is part of the Clarksburg, WV Micropolitan Statistical Area.