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Wood County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia. As of the 2020 census, the population was 84,296, [1] making it West Virginia's fifth-most populous county. Its county seat is Parkersburg. [2] The county was formed in 1798 from the western part of Harrison County and named for James Wood, governor of Virginia from 1796 to 1799. [3]
Davisville (also Clairville or Claysville) is an unincorporated community in Wood County, West Virginia, United States. Its elevation is 620 feet (189 m). [ 1 ] It has a post office with the ZIP code 26142. [ 2 ]
West Virginia: County: West Virginia ... : UTC-4 (EDT) ZIP codes: 261428899. Area code: 304: GNIS ID: 1544015 [1] Murphytown is an unincorporated community in Wood ...
Waverly (also known as Bull Creek and Union School District) is a census-designated place (CDP) in northeastern Wood County, West Virginia, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population was 395. [3] It lies along the Ohio River on West Virginia Route 2, northeast of the city of Parkersburg, the county seat of Wood County. [4]
The Wood County Courthouse is a public building in downtown Parkersburg, West Virginia, in the United States. [2] The courthouse was built in 1899 at a cost of $100,000 in the Richardsonian Romanesque style by local contractors Caldwell & Drake , according to the plans of architect L. W. Thomas of Canton, Ohio . [ 3 ]
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]
Rockport is an unincorporated community in Wood County, West Virginia, United States. It lies at an elevation of 705 feet (215 m), [ 2 ] along Tygart Creek . [ 3 ] It is the last exit in southern Wood County along I-77 and is unincorporated, with the ZIP code of 26169.
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]