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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 is a landlocked state in the Southern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. [note 2] It is bordered by Pennsylvania and Maryland to the northeast, Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, and Ohio to the northwest.
The Flag of West Virginia. West Virginia is a landlocked state in the Southern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States.It is bordered by Pennsylvania and Maryland to the northeast, Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, and Ohio to the northwest.
Location of Berkeley County in West Virginia. This is a list of the National Register of Historic Places listings in Berkeley County, West Virginia.. This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Berkeley County, West Virginia, United States.
Jefferson County is the easternmost county in the U.S. State of West Virginia.It is located in the Shenandoah Valley in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 57,701. [1]
A freeway exit sign with a trunk secondary road shield A road sign with a "fractional" spur secondary road shield A road sign with a Home Access Road Program shield. West Virginia state highways have a square-shaped highway shield.
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]
White trappers visited the area that is now Harrison County as early as the 1760s. Some traded with the Native Americans there. The Virginia Colony claimed the area as part of its vast Augusta County.