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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.
Putnam County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census , its population was 57,440. [ 1 ] Its county seat is Winfield , its largest incorporated city is Hurricane , and its largest community is the census-designated place of Teays Valley . [ 2 ]
Putnam County is a county located in the U.S. state of West Virginia. The name is in honor of Israel Putnam, an American soldier in the French and Indian War and general in the American Revolutionary War. Its county seat is Winfield, its largest incorporated community is Hurricane, and its most populous community is Teays Valley. West Virginia ...
Feb. 14—OTTAWA — The Putnam County Sheriff's Office warned residents about a new scam by someone claiming to be a deputy. People receive calls from someone identifying herself as Jennifer ...
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]
Until July 1, 2018, the agency was simply the "West Virginia Division of Corrections" and only operated the adult prisons. On July 1, 2018 the agency absorbed the former West Virginia Division of Juvenile Services and the former West Virginia Regional Jail Authority and assumed its current name. [9] [10]
During the Civil War, the area that would become Scary, West Virginia was the site of the first Confederate victory in Kanawha Valley on July 17, 1861. [2] [3] This is commemorated by two distinct plaques, very near to each other, in the town today.
Unincorporated communities in Putnam County, West Virginia (27 P) This page was last edited on 30 March 2013, at 04:22 (UTC). Text is ...