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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]
This is a list of school districts in West Virginia, sorted in an alphabetical order. Since 1933, all public school districts in the U.S. state of West Virginia have, by law, exactly followed the county boundaries. All school districts are independent governments. No public school systems are dependent on another layer of government. [1]
Delorme, also known as Edgarton, is an unincorporated community in Mingo County, West Virginia, United States. Delorme is located along the Tug Fork across from the state of Kentucky . It was formerly served by the Norfolk and Western Railway [ 2 ] and reportedly once had as many as seven bars.
List of communities in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia, arranged in alphabetical order. Incorporated municipalities are listed in bold . Asterisks (*) indicate a county seat .
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There are listings in every one of West Virginia's 55 counties. Listings range from prehistoric sites such as Grave Creek Mound , to Cool Spring Farm in the state's eastern panhandle, one of the state's first homesteads, to relatively newer, yet still historical, residences and commercial districts.
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 northern panhandle is one of the two panhandles in the U.S. state of West Virginia.It is a culturally and geographically distinct region of the state. It is the state's northernmost extension, bounded by Ohio and the Ohio River on the north and west and the state of Pennsylvania on the east.