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Mason County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 25,453. [1] Its county seat and largest city is Point Pleasant. [2] The county was founded in 1804 and named for George Mason, [3] delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention.
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]
Clendenin District is located along the Ohio River in the southern part of Mason County. To the north, it is bounded by the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers, and by Lewis District; to the northeast, by Arbuckle District; to the southeast by Buffalo-Union District in Putnam County, formerly Buffalo District; to the south by Hannan District, in Mason County; and to the west by the Ohio River.
The only highways in Union District are West Virginia Route 62, which follows the Kanawha Valley between Point Pleasant and Buffalo, in Putnam County, passing through the western part of the district, and West Virginia Route 87, which follows the northern part of the boundary between Cologne and Union Districts, as it travels between Baden in Cologne District, and Evans in Jackson County.
The land that would become Mason County, West Virginia was first surveyed in 1772 by a team led by George Washington.They surveyed a tract of 51,302 acres, just over eighty square miles, north of a line drawn between Letart Falls and the mouth of the Great Kanawha, including most of Robinson and Lewis Districts, along with all of Graham and Waggener.
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Leon is a town in Mason County, West Virginia, United States, situated along the Kanawha River. The population was 137 at the 2020 census. [2] It is part of the Point Pleasant, WV–OH Micropolitan Statistical Area.