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Clay is a town in and the county seat of Clay County, West Virginia, United States. [5] The population was 399 at the 2020 census . [ 2 ] It is the only incorporated town in Clay County.
Clay County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,051. [1] Its county seat is Clay. [2] The county was founded in 1858 and named in honor of Henry Clay, famous American statesman, member of the United States Senate from Kentucky and United States Secretary of State in the 19th century. [3]
Location of Clay County in West Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Clay County, West Virginia. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Clay County, West Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register ...
The Old Clay County Courthouse in Clay, West Virginia was designed by Frank Packard and built in 1902. The Beaux-Arts building was located on a hill overlooking the county seat.
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 Buffalo Creek and Gauley Railroad (BC&G) was a railroad chartered on April 1, 1904 [1] and ran along Buffalo Creek in Clay County, West Virginia. The original Buffalo Creek and Gauley ended service in 1965. The BC&G was one of the last all-steam railroads, never operating a diesel locomotive to the day it shut down on February 27, 1965. [2]