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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.
Northern Panhandle 6 Cabell: 41 Metro Valley 7 Calhoun: 2 Mid-Ohio Valley 8 Clay: 1 Mountain Lakes 9 Doddridge: 9 Mountaineer Country 10 Fayette: 28 New River/Greenbrier Valley 11 Gilmer: 10 Mountain Lakes 12 Grant: 7 Potomac Highlands 13 Greenbrier: 46 New River/Greenbrier Valley 14 Hampshire: 28 Potomac Highlands 15 Hancock: 11 Northern ...
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]
Chester is a city in Hancock County, West Virginia, United States.The population was 2,214 at the 2020 census. [2] It is located along the Ohio River in the state's northern panhandle and is the northernmost city in West Virginia.
The eastern panhandle includes West Virginia's oldest chartered towns (1762) of Romney and Shepherdstown. The panhandle also includes West Virginia's two oldest counties: Hampshire (1753) and Berkeley (1772). West Virginia's historically most famous towns, Harpers Ferry and Charles Town, are at the eastern end of the eastern panhandle. Harpers ...
Brooke County is a county in the Northern Panhandle of the U.S. state of West Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 22,559. [1] Its county seat is Wellsburg. [2] The county was created in 1797 from part of Ohio County [3] and named in honor of Robert Brooke, Governor of Virginia from 1794 to 1796. [4]
2023 Rank City Type 2023 Estimate [1] 2020 Census Change County 1: Charleston †† City 46,838 48,864 −4.15%: Kanawha: 2: Huntington † City 45,325 46,842
West Virginia's two senators, who represent the entire state, are Shelley Moore Capito and Joe Manchin, a Republican from Charleston and a Democrat from Fairmont, respectively. Although powerfully Unionist during the Civil War, [22] Ohio County politics differs substantially from the two more northerly counties of the Northern Panhandle. The ...