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English: This is a locator map showing Clay County in West Virginia. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date: 12 February 2006:
Clay County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,051. [1] Its county seat is Clay. [2] The county was founded in 1858 and named in honor of Henry Clay, famous American statesman, member of the United States Senate from Kentucky and United States Secretary of State in the 19th century. [3]
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 Peacock Performing Arts Center, the only community theatre in far-west North Carolina, opened in Hayesville in 1986. [29] The Clay County Chamber of Commerce began in 1986. [30] Clay County's building inspections department started in 1987. [10] The famed New Year's Eve "Possum Drop" was held annually in Brasstown between 1990 and 2018. [31]
This list includes properties and districts listed on the National Register of Historic Places in Clay County, North Carolina. Click the "Map of all coordinates" link to the right to view a Google map of all properties and districts with latitude and longitude coordinates in the table below. [1]
The Formation of the North Carolina Counties, 1663–1943. Raleigh: State Dept. of Archives and History, 1950. Reprint, Raleigh: Division of Archives and History, North Carolina Dept. of Cultural Resources, 1987. ISBN 0-86526-032-X; Powell, William S. The North Carolina Gazetteer. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1968. Reprint ...
Map of Clay County, North Carolina With Municipal and Township Labels. Hiawassee is the central most and smallest township of Clay County, North Carolina, United States.It is situated between Hayesville Township to the west, Shooting Creek Township to the east and Tusquittee Township to the north.
Map of Clay County, North Carolina With Municipal and Township Labels. Tusquittee Township is one of the six townships of Clay County, North Carolina, United States and is the northernmost of the six. The other five are Brasstown; Hayesville, which contains the county seat of the same name; Sweetwater, Hiawassee, and Shooting Creek.