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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]
Pennsylvania state line — — WV 230 — — Halltown: Shepherdstown — — WV 243 — — Arden: US 11 at Tablers Station: 2024: current WV 251 — — Wheeling: Wheeling — — WV 252 — — Wheeling: Wheeling — — Route may no longer exist as Aetnaville Bridge is closed. WV 259 — — Virginia state line: Virginia state line ...
Also drawing tourism to the state is the West Virginia State Park & State Forest system, which comprises 45 units covering 164,000 acres. In 2021, over 9 million people visited a West Virginia State Park, the highest number on record. This is partly due to a recent $151 million improvement project that has seen improvements at every park and ...
The location of the state of West Virginia in the United States of America. The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to the U.S. state of West Virginia: West Virginia – U.S. state located in the Appalachian region of the Southern United States. West Virginia became a state following the Wheeling Conventions of ...
Below is a table of West Virginia's state senate district boundary maps, presented chronologically. All redistricting events that took place in West Virginia in 1863 and between 1901 and the current boundaries as of August 2024 are shown.
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Charleston is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of West Virginia and the seat of Kanawha County. [9] It is at the confluence of the Elk and Kanawha rivers. The population was 48,864 at the 2020 census. [5]
U.S. Route 52 (US 52) skirts the western fringes of the U.S. state of West Virginia.It runs from the Virginia state line near Bluefield, where it is concurrent with Interstate 77 (I-77), in a general northwest and north direction to I-64 at Kenova.