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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]
The county court may, from time to time, increase or diminish the number of such districts, and change the boundary lines thereof as necessity may require, in order to conform the same to the provisions of the Constitution of the State. [3] The only state other than West Virginia to use magisterial districts as a minor civil division of its ...
Map of the United States with West Virginia highlighted. 2023 Rank City Type 2023 Estimate [1] 2020 Census Change County 1: ... Martinsburg † ...
The following 57 pages use this file: Allensville, West Virginia; Arden, Berkeley County, West Virginia; Baker Heights, West Virginia; Baxter, Berkeley County, West ...
Martinsburg is a city in Berkeley County, West Virginia, United States, and its county seat. [6] The population was 18,773 at the 2020 census , making Martinsburg the largest city in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia and the sixth-most populous city in the state.
The following 54 pages use this file: Adaline, West Virginia; Allendale, West Virginia; Alley Grove, West Virginia; Andersonville, West Virginia; Bannen, West Virginia
In 1726, Morgan Morgan moved from Delaware and founded the first permanent English settlement of record in West Virginia on Mill Creek near the present-day Bunker Hill in Berkeley County. The state of West Virginia erected a monument in Bunker Hill commemorating the event, and placed a marker at Morgan's grave, which is located in a cemetery ...
The following 47 pages use this file: Berkeley Springs, West Virginia; Berryville, West Virginia; Burnt Factory, West Virginia; Campbells, West Virginia