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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]
3,049 counties (including 41 independent cities) [cg] Local government in the United States varies widely by state; some entities cross county and other boundaries. The US Census in 2012 counted 19,522 municipalities, 16,364 townships , 37,203 special districts, and 12,884 independent school districts which have active governments. [ 45 ]
2023 Rank City Type 2023 Estimate [1] 2020 Census Change County 1: Charleston †† City 46,838 48,864 −4.15%: Kanawha: 2: Huntington † City 45,325 46,842
English: SVG Map of the State of West Virginia Counties (Forms the State) Date: 19 April 2011: Source: US Census Shapefiles and Own Work: Author: Gerald W. Reveal (Jerry)
Mountaineer Country 2 Berkeley: 120 Eastern Panhandle 3 Boone: 4 Metro Valley 4 Braxton: 10 Mountain Lakes 5 Brooke: 24 Northern Panhandle 6 Cabell: 41 Metro Valley 7 Calhoun: 2 Mid-Ohio Valley 8 Clay: 1 Mountain Lakes 9 Doddridge: 9 Mountaineer Country 10 Fayette: 28 New River/Greenbrier Valley 11 Gilmer: 10 Mountain Lakes 12 Grant: 7 Potomac ...
List of communities in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, arranged in alphabetical order. Incorporated municipalities are listed in bold . Asterisks (*) indicate a county seat .
North Central West Virginia (sometimes known as "Mountaineer Country") is a region in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The region's largest cities are Morgantown , Fairmont , and Clarksburg . Counties
The Parkersburg–Vienna metropolitan area, officially the Parkersburg–Vienna, WV Metropolitan Statistical Area as defined by the United States Census Bureau, [1] is an area consisting of two counties in West Virginia, anchored by the cities of Parkersburg and Vienna.