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www.cabellcounty.org. Cabell County is a county located in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 94,350, [1] making it West Virginia's fourth most-populous county. Its county seat is Huntington. [2] The county was organized in 1809 and named for William H. Cabell, the Governor of Virginia from 1805 to 1808. [3]
For most of the state's history, there were three hundred and fifty magisterial districts in West Virginia, an average of six districts per county. Greenbrier, Harrison, Mason, Ohio, and Wood Counties each contained ten districts, the maximum number provided for by state law. Brooke, Grant, and Hancock were the only counties with the minimum ...
Racer, the Cabell County Sheriff’s Office, Sheriff Chuck Zerkle and the Cabell County Commission are all named as defendants. The Associated Press left a message with the sheriff’s office ...
The slaveholders also gave themselves a tax advantage: enslaved people under 12 years of age were not taxed, while those who were older were only taxed at a value of $300. Despite these inequities, the new constitution was opposed only by a few counties in the east. [52] Green Bottom Plantation, Cabell County, West Virginia.
Huntington is located in western Cabell County at 38°25′9.30″N 82°26′42.55″W (38.4192496, -82.4451540). The elevation is 564 feet (172 m) above sea level. [4] Huntington is in the southwestern corner of West Virginia, on the border with Ohio, on the southern bank of the Ohio River, at the confluence with the Guyandotte River.
On Jan. 4, 1863, the Wheeling-elected sheriff of Barbour County was arrested by Imboden's troops and was sent to Richmond as a prisoner. In retaliation Gov. Pierpont arrested 8 citizens of Barbour to be held as hostages, one of whom died in prison. The sheriff and hostages were eventually released and Sheriff Trayhern resigned his position. [44]
Geography of Cabell County, West Virginia (4 C, 2 P) P. People from Cabell County, West Virginia (3 C, 10 P) T.
Lincoln County was created by an act of the West Virginia Legislature on February 23, 1867, from parts of Boone, Cabell, Kanawha and Putnam counties. By 1869, the county had returned much of its Putnam County territory and absorbed the northern portion of Logan County and a portion of Wayne County. In 1869, Harts Creek Township (later district ...