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Jefferson County is the easternmost county in the U.S. State of West Virginia. It is located in the Shenandoah Valley in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia . As of the 2020 census , the population was 57,701. [ 1 ]
In 2008 there were 51,376 crimes reported in West Virginia, including 67 murders. [1] West Virginia's ten worst cities statistically to live in are Fairmont, South Charleston, Martinsburg, Morgantown, Clarksburg, Parkersburg, Beckley, Wheeling, Charleston and Huntington with an annual crime rate of 394.
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]
This is a list of law enforcement agencies in the state of West Virginia. According to the US Bureau of Justice Statistics' 2008 Census of State and Local Law Enforcement Agencies, the state had 233 law enforcement agencies employing 3,382 sworn police officers, about 186 for each 100,000 residents.
Charles Town is a city in and the county seat of Jefferson County, West Virginia, United States. [5] The population was 6,534 at the 2020 census. The city is named for its founder Charles Washington, youngest brother of President George Washington. It is part of the northwestern fringes of the Washington metropolitan area.
English: This is a locator map showing Jefferson County in West Virginia. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date: 12 February 2006:
Shenandoah Junction is a census-designated place (CDP) in Jefferson County in the U.S. state of West Virginia's Eastern Panhandle. As of the 2010 census, Shenandoah Junction had a population of 703. [3] It is located between Kearneysville, WV and Charles Town, WV off WV 9.
People from Jefferson County, West Virginia (6 C, 32 P) T. Tourist attractions in Jefferson County, West Virginia (3 C, 15 P)