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Calhoun County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 6,229, [1] making it the third-least populous county in West Virginia. Its county seat is Grantsville. [2] The county was founded in 1856 and named for South Carolina politician John C. Calhoun. [3] [4]
In these counties, the new magisterial districts are used only for the allocation of county officials, and the collection of census data; the former magisterial districts continue to exist in the form of tax districts. [6] A List of the current and former magisterial districts of West Virginia, sorted by county: [1] [7]
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]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Calhoun County, West Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in an online map.
Big Springs (also Bigsprings, Chestnut Grove, or Fort Evans) is an unincorporated community in Calhoun County, West Virginia, United States. It lies along West Virginia Route 16 to the north of the town of Grantsville, the county seat of Calhoun County. [1] Its elevation is 771 feet (235 m). [2] It has a post office with the ZIP code 26137. [3]
It is the county seat of Calhoun County. [5] The town was established along the Little Kanawha River [ 6 ] in 1865 and named for Ulysses S. Grant . [ 7 ] [ 8 ] Grantsville is home to Wayne Underwood Park, which includes a .25-mile-long (0.40 km) walking trail, and to the annual West Virginia Wood Festival.
West Virginia portal Wikimedia Commons has media related to Calhoun County, West Virginia . The main article for this category is Calhoun County, West Virginia .
The community was founded Charles H. Richardson in 1866. Richardson was the village's postmaster for a time. He served in the West Virginia House of Delegates in 1885. The village boomed c.1900, an event linked to oil and gas discovery. The community had a water mill on the West Fork of the Little Kanawha, as well as a church, general stores, a ...