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West Virginia is a landlocked state in the Southern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. [ note 2] It is bordered by Pennsylvania to the north and east, Maryland to the east and northeast, Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, and Ohio to the northwest. West Virginia is the 10th-smallest state by area and ranks as the ...
List of counties in West Virginia. 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 ...
54-85324 [ 3] GNIS feature ID. 1555938 [ 4] Website. Official website. Wellsburg is a city in and the county seat of Brooke County, West Virginia, United States. [ 5] The 2020 census recorded a population of 2,455. [ 2] It is a part of the Weirton–Steubenville metropolitan area.
Largest municipalities in West Virginia by population. Charleston, the capital of West Virginia and its most populous city. Huntington. Parkersburg. Morgantown. Wheeling. Martinsburg. Fairmont. Beckley.
Thurmond is a town in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States, on the New River. The population was five at the 2020 census. During the heyday of coal mining in the New River Gorge, Thurmond was a prosperous town with a number of businesses and facilities for the Chesapeake and Ohio Railway . Most of Thurmond is owned by the National Park ...
Website. parkersburgwv .gov. Parkersburg is a city in and the county seat of Wood County, West Virginia, United States. [ 5] Located at the confluence of the Ohio and Little Kanawha rivers, it is the state's fourth-most populous city and the center of the Parkersburg–Vienna metropolitan area. The city's population was 29,749 at the 2020 ...
White Sulphur Springs, West Virginia. / 37.79833°N 80.30028°W / 37.79833; -80.30028. White Sulphur Springs is a city in Greenbrier County in southeastern West Virginia, United States. The population was 2,231 at the 2020 census. [ 3] The city emblem consists of five dandelion flowers and the citizens celebrate spring with an annual ...
St. Marys is a city in and the county seat of Pleasants County, West Virginia, United States. [5] The population was 1,847 at the 2020 census. [3] It is part of the Parkersburg–Vienna metropolitan area. St. Marys was established in 1849 by Alexander Creel, who is said to have had a vision of Mary while passing the townsite by boat on the Ohio ...