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Page is a census-designated place (CDP) and coal town in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States.As of the 2010 census, its population was 224. [2] It was named for William Nelson Page [3] (1854–1932), a civil engineer and industrialist who lived in nearby Ansted, where he managed Gauley Mountain Coal Company and many iron, coal, and railroad enterprises.
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]
Page County is located in the Commonwealth of Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 23,709. [1] Its county seat is Luray. [2] Page County was formed in 1831 from Shenandoah and Rockingham counties and was named for John Page, Governor of Virginia from 1802 to 1805.
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West Virginia History. West Virginia Historical Society. ISSN 0043-325X. Delf Norona (1958). West Virginia Imprints, 1790-1863: A Checklist of Books, Newspapers, Periodicals and Broadsides. Moundsville: West Virginia Library Association. OCLC 863601 – via Internet Archive. G. Thomas Tanselle (1971). "General Studies: West Virginia".
President Jimmy Carter signed legislation establishing New River Gorge National River on November 10, 1978 (Pub. L. 95–625).As stated in the legislation, the park was established as a unit of the national park system "for the purpose of conserving and interpreting outstanding natural, scenic, and historic values and objects in and around the New River Gorge, and preserving as a free-flowing ...
Shenandoah is located at (38.488225, −78.621217 According to the United States Census Bureau, the town has a total area of 2.3 square miles (5.9 km 2), of which, 2.2 square miles (5.6 km 2) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.2 km 2) of it (4.24%) is water.
Larry Pack (born November 9, 1957) is an American politician, accountant, and businessman who is currently serving as the 26th Treasurer of West Virginia since 2025. He was elected to the position unopposed in 2024, and was appointed to the position by Governor Jim Justice after his predecessor, Riley Moore, resigned to become a United States representative. [1]