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Charleston is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of West Virginia.It is the seat of Kanawha County [9] and is at the confluence of the Elk and Kanawha rivers. The population was 48,864 at the 2020 census. [5]
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
Charleston is a city in and the county seat of Coles County, Illinois, United States. [3] The population was 17,286, as of the 2020 census. The city is home to Eastern Illinois University and has close ties with its neighbor, Mattoon.
Downtown Charleston Historic District is a national historic district located at Charleston, West Virginia, USA. The district contains contributing structures in the Late Victorian and Late 19th and 20th Century Revivals architectural styles. [ 2 ]
It is the largest metropolitan area entirely within the state of West Virginia. The Huntington Metro Area adds to the Charleston–Huntington, WV-OH-KY CSA and spans three states (West Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio), while the core county of the Charleston area, Kanawha County, is more populous than the West Virginia portion of the Huntington area.
The courthouse is located in a public square in central Charleston and houses most of Coles County, Illinois's administrative offices as well as its courts. It was built in 1898 and designed by Chicago architect C. W. Rapp in the Richardsonian Romanesque style.
Fort Scammon, also known as Camp White or Fort Hill, is an archaeological site in Charleston in Kanawha County, West Virginia.The site preserves earthenwork battlements that were set up in 1863 in an elliptical pattern.
At the 2000 census there were 1,212 people, 478 households, and 305 families living in the city. The population density was 1,357.9 people per square mile (525.8/km 2).There were 533 housing units at an average density of 597.2 per square mile (231.2/km 2).