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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]
Map of the United States with West Virginia highlighted. 2023 Rank City Type 2023 Estimate [1] 2020 Census Change County 1: Charleston †† City 46,838 48,864 −4.15%:
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. Download coordinates as: KML; ... GPX (secondary coordinates) in Category:Unincorporated communities in West Virginia by ...
Map all coordinates using OpenStreetMap. ... Towns in West Virginia by county (48 C) A. Alderson, ... Pages in category "Towns in West Virginia"
This is a non-diffusing subcategory of Category:Towns in West Virginia. ... Towns in Hampshire County, West Virginia (1 C, 1 P) Towns in Hardy County, ...
The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has designated more than 1,000 statistical areas for the United States and Puerto Rico. [2] These statistical areas are important geographic delineations of population clusters used by the OMB, the United States Census Bureau, planning organizations, and federal, state, and local government entities.
Shortly after West Virginia gained statehood, Mineral and Grant Counties were created from Hampshire and Hardy in 1866. 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 ...
Ritchie County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 8,444. [1] Its county seat is Harrisville. [2] The county was created in 1843 by the Virginia General Assembly and named for Richmond newspaper publisher Thomas Ritchie. [3]