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As of the census [4] of 2000, there were 1,586 people, 644 households, and 446 families residing in the CDP. The population density was 40.6 people/km 2 (105 people/sq mi). There were 704 housing units at an average density of 18.0 units/km 2 (47 units/sq mi).
Calvin Price State Forest is a 9,482-acre (38 km 2) state forest in eastern Pocahontas and Greenbrier counties, West Virginia. [1] The forest is the newest in West Virginia's system, having been mostly purchased in 1953 from New River Lumber Company. [2] The forest is named for Marlinton newspaper editor, Calvin W. Price.
The Wheeling, WV–OH Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of two counties in the Northern Panhandle of West Virginia and one in eastern Ohio, anchored by the city of Wheeling.
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]
According to the United States Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 698 square miles (1,810 km 2), of which 696 square miles (1,800 km 2) is land and 2.1 square miles (5.4 km 2) (0.3%) is water. [11] It is the fifth-largest county in West Virginia by area.
Berwind is a town on the Dry Fork in McDowell County, West Virginia, United States. As of the 2010 census, its population is 278. [2] The town is named for Edward Julius Berwind, owner of the Berwind Company, and was originally a company town. It was later incorporated in 1905.
Kimberly is a census-designated place (CDP) in Fayette County, West Virginia, United States. It is located along Armstrong Creek shortly before it enters the Kanawha River. As of the 2010 census, its population was 287. [2] It is in zip code 25118. [3]
Farmington is a town in Marion County, West Virginia, United States. The population was 389 at the 2020 census. [3] The small town is situated on Buffalo Creek and the Allegheny Mountains about 6 miles west of Fairmont, Marion County's county seat. [6] It is best known for being the site of the 1968 Farmington Mine disaster.