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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]
Charleston is the capital and most populous city of the U.S. state of West Virginia.It is the seat of Kanawha County [9] and is at the confluence of the Elk and Kanawha rivers. The population was 48,864 at the 2020 census. [5]
In these counties, the new magisterial districts are used only for the allocation of county officials, and the collection of census data; the former magisterial districts continue to exist in the form of tax districts. [6] A List of the current and former magisterial districts of West Virginia, sorted by county: [1] [7]
It is the largest metropolitan area entirely within the state of West Virginia. The Huntington Metro Area adds to the Charleston–Huntington, WV-OH-KY CSA and spans three states (West Virginia, Kentucky, and Ohio), while the core county of the Charleston area, Kanawha County, is more populous than the West Virginia portion of the Huntington area.
West Dunbar is an unincorporated community and census-designated place (CDP) in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States. As of the 2020 census, it had a population of 617. [2] West Dunbar is in the western part of the county, on the north side of the Kanawha River valley. It is bordered to the south and east by the city of Dunbar.
Kanawha is an unincorporated community in Wood County, West Virginia, United States. Kanawha is located on West Virginia Route 47 , 7 miles (11 km) southeast of Parkersburg . [ 2 ]
Tyler Mountain is an unincorporated community in Kanawha County, West Virginia, United States. Tyler Mountain is located at the junction of State routes 62 and 501, 5.5 miles (8.9 km) west-northwest of Charleston. [2]
Kanawha County (/ k ə ˈ n ɔː ə / kə-NAW-ə) is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 180,745, [1] making it West Virginia's most populous county. [2] The county seat is Charleston, [3] which is also the state capital and most populous city. Kanawha County is part of the Charleston, WV ...