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The State Fair of West Virginia is an annual state fair for West Virginia, United States. It is held annually in mid-August on the State Fairgrounds in Lewisburg. This year's State Fair is scheduled for 8-17 August 2024. The State Fairgrounds consists of a large open park for carnivals and exhibition, grandstands, and several exhibition buildings.
Aug. 10—LEWISBURG — The State Fair of West Virginia opens Thursday, August 11 at 9 a.m. for its 97th year in Lewisburg, West Virginia at 907 Maplewood Avenue. According to a press release sent ...
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 oldest state fair is that of The Fredericksburg Agricultural Fair, established in 1738, and is the oldest fair in Virginia and the United States. [1] The first U.S. state fair was the New York, held in 1841 in Syracuse, and has been held annually since. [2] The second state fair was in Detroit, Michigan, which ran from 1849 [3] to 2009. [4] [5]
The U.S. state of West Virginia is divided into fifty-five counties, each of which is further subdivided into magisterial districts. The U.S. Census Bureau defines these districts as non-functioning subdivisions used for various purposes, such as conducting elections, apportioning county officials from different areas, recording land ownership ...
West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection. West Virginia Division of Air Quality; West Virginia Division of Land Restoration; West Virginia Division of Mining and Reclamation; West Virginia Division of Water and Waste Management; West Virginia Office of Abandoned Mine Lands and Reclamation; West Virginia Office of Environmental Advocate
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Fairlea is located at (37.779967, -80.458538 [4]According to the United States Census Bureau, the CDP has a total area of 3.7 square miles (9.6 km 2), all land.. The area Fairlea is located on is relatively flat compared to the rest of the state.