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Beckley is a city in and the county seat of Raleigh County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 17,286 at the 2020 census , making it the ninth-most populous city in the state. It is the principal city of the Beckley metropolitan area of Southern West Virginia , home to 115,079 residents in 2020.
On December 31, 2014, West Virginia University announced that it would purchase MSU’s former Beckley campus for $8 million. [22] On September 1, 2015, the WVU board of governors approved a plan to move the West Virginia University Institute of Technology from its then-current campus in Montgomery to the former MSU campus in Beckley. [23]
West Virginia University is also the state's sole participant university in the National Space Grant College and Fellowship Program. [9] In addition, West Virginia has two historically black colleges and universities that are members of the Thurgood Marshall College Fund: Bluefield State University and West Virginia State University. [10] [11]
WV 16 south – Beckley: south end of WV 16 overlap: see WV 16: Oak Hill: WV 16 north (Main Street) – Fayetteville: north end of WV 16 overlap: Montgomery: To US 60 (via WV 6) to Montgomery Bridge: Kanawha: Chelyan: To I-64 / I-77 / US 60 – Cedar Grove, Charleston, Beckley: interchange; I-77 exit 85; to Chelyan Bridge: Marmet: WV 94 south ...
In the early 1910s, Montgomery was the shipping center for 26 different coal operations and was the largest town in Fayette County at the time. [ 6 ] From 1895 until its 2017 move to Beckley , Montgomery was the home of West Virginia University Institute of Technology , popularly called WVU Tech .
Raleigh County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 74,591. [1] Its county seat is Beckley. [2] The county was founded in 1850 and is named for Sir Walter Raleigh. [3] Raleigh County is included in the Beckley, West Virginia, Metropolitan Statistical Area.
Bunker Hill is an unincorporated community in Berkeley County, West Virginia, United States, located in the lower Shenandoah Valley on Winchester Pike (U.S. Route 11) at its junction with County Route 26 south of Martinsburg.
Fayette County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 40,488. [1] Its county seat is Fayetteville. [2] It is part of the Beckley, WV Metropolitan Statistical Area in Southern West Virginia. [3]