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Mason County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 25,453. [1] Its county seat and largest city is Point Pleasant. [2] The county was founded in 1804 and named for George Mason, [3] delegate to the U.S. Constitutional Convention.
Mason, also known as Mason City, [5] is a town in Mason County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 865 at the 2020 census . [ 2 ] It is part of the Point Pleasant , WV– OH Micropolitan Statistical Area .
Arbuckle District is located in the central portion of Mason County, between the Kanawha River and the northern end of Putnam County.To the north, it is bounded by the Kanawha River, and by Lewis and Cooper Districts; to the northeast by the Kanawha and Cologne District; to the east by the Kanawha and Union District; to the south by the Buffalo-Union District of Putnam County, formerly Buffalo ...
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]
West Virginia: County: Mason: Established: 1863: Area [1] ... but there are a number of unincorporated ... The district's first post office was established in 1837 ...
The land that would become Mason County, West Virginia was first surveyed in 1772 by a team led by George Washington; his brother, Augustine, had been one of the organizers of the Ohio Company. The team surveyed a tract of 51,302 acres, just over eighty square miles, lying between Letart Falls on the Ohio, and the mouth of Threemile Creek on ...
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]
Clendenin District is located along the Ohio River in the southern part of Mason County. To the north, it is bounded by the Ohio and Kanawha Rivers, and by Lewis District; to the northeast, by Arbuckle District; to the southeast by Buffalo-Union District in Putnam County, formerly Buffalo District; to the south by Hannan District, in Mason County; and to the west by the Ohio River.