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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. Its unusual configuration is the result of the ...
Wheeling is a city in Ohio and Marshall counties in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The county seat of Ohio County, it lies along the Ohio River in the foothills of the Appalachian Mountains within the state's Northern Panhandle. [ 5] As of the 2020 census, the city had a population of 27,062, making it the fifth-most populous city in West ...
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]
Ohio County, West Virginia. / 40.1°N 80.62°W / 40.1; -80.62. Ohio County is a county located in the Northern Panhandle of the U.S. state of West Virginia, and forms part of the Wheeling metropolitan area. As of the 2020 census, the population was 42,425. [ 1] Its county seat is Wheeling. [ 2]
West Virginia is a landlocked state in the Southern and Mid-Atlantic regions of the United States. [ note 2] It is bordered by Pennsylvania to the north and east, Maryland to the east and northeast, Virginia to the southeast, Kentucky to the southwest, and Ohio to the northwest. West Virginia is the 10th-smallest state by area and ranks as the ...
Map of the Shenandoah Valley The Shenandoah Valley in autumn A poultry farm with the Blue Ridge Mountains in the background A farm in the fertile Shenandoah Valley. The Shenandoah Valley (/ ˌ ʃ ɛ n ə n ˈ d oʊ ə /) is a geographic valley and cultural region of western Virginia and the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia in the United States.
Website. www .hancockcountywv .org. Hancock County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 29,095. [ 1] Its county seat is New Cumberland and its largest city is Weirton. [ 2] The county was created from Brooke County in 1848 and named for John Hancock, first signer of the Declaration of ...
Chester is a city in northern Hancock County, West Virginia, United States, along the Ohio River. The population was 2,214 at the 2020 census. [ 2] Located south of Ohio and west of Pennsylvania, Chester is the northernmost city in West Virginia. It is part of the Weirton–Steubenville metropolitan area, and is home to the World's Largest ...