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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 was admitted as a separate state of the United States on June 20, 1863. [2]
Most West Virginians also include Wetzel County, and sometimes Tyler County, directly to the south of Marshall County, as a part of the northern panhandle, although they do not lie strictly within the northern extension. [2] Prior to the 2020 redistricting, they formed the core of West Virginia's 1st congressional district.
The following list includes settlements, geographic features, and political subdivisions of West Virginia whose names are derived from Native American languages. Listings [ edit ]
Native American tribes in the U.S. state of West Virginia. Subcategories. This category has the following 4 subcategories, out of 4 total. S. Shawnee (8 C, 8 P)
Mingo County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 23,568. [1] Its county seat and largest city is Williamson. [2] Created in 1895, [3] Mingo is West Virginia's newest county, named for the historic Iroquoian Mingo people. [4]
According to the 2010 census, the eight counties of the eastern panhandle had a combined population of 261,041, giving the region 11.75% of West Virginia's population. [7] Berkeley County is the panhandle's most populous county, with a census 104,169 residents (2010).
The Buffalo Indian Village Site is an archaeological site located near Buffalo, Putnam County, West Virginia, along the Kanawha River in the United States. This site sits atop a high terrace on the eastern bank of the Kanawha River and was once home to a variety of Native American villages including the Archaic, Middle Woodland and Fort Ancient cultures of this region.
The Black Minqua were located in the West Virginia (Grant, Hampshire and Hardy counties) and Maryland (Allegany County) areas that share the Potomac River as a border. They may have been part of the Erie people , and were bitter enemies of the Iroquois Confederacy for control of the fur trade like their Erie and Huron allies. [ 39 ]