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West Virginia has a system of secondary state highways that are functionally similar to county roads in most other states. Secondary road designations are only unique within each county. There are two types of secondary roads: [1] Trunk secondary roads have a single number in a circular highway shield.
English: OpenStreetMap image of the far northern valley of Virginia and the West Virginia panhandle. Specifically Martinsburg, West Virginia (exact top = 39.5782); Romney, West Virginia (exact left = -78.7994); Charles Town, West Virginia (exact right = -77.8175); and Winchester, Virginia (exact bottom = 38.9829).
West of Petersburg: Maryland state line 1922: current WV 43 — — — — 1922: 1940 Became part of WV 39 to match Virginia (which had renumbered its side from SR 501 to SR 39); the original plan was to renumber this road as WV 501, but West Virginia could not do that WV 43 — — US 19 at Muddlety: WV 20 at Craigsville: 1941
US 40 near West Alexander, Pa. 1926: current US 48: 143: 230 West Virginia Route 93 near Davis: US 48 near Lebanon Church, Va. 2002: current Under construction as part of Corridor H: US 50: 196.20: 315.75 US 50 / SR 32 near Belpre, Ohio: US 50 near Winchester, Va. 1926: current Two sections divided by 9 miles (14 km) in Maryland: US 52
While West Virginia was once crisscrossed with commercial and passenger railroad networks, the decline of the coal and timber industries, coupled with the rise of the automobile, led to a sharp drop in track mileage in the state. Many of the former railroad grades are used as trails for hiking and biking throughout the state's numerous woodlands.
Pages in category "Lists of roads in West Virginia" The following 4 pages are in this category, out of 4 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. C.
West Virginia Route 3 is a state highway in the U.S. state of West Virginia. It runs from West Virginia Route 10 in West Hamlin in a general easterly direction via Beckley to West Virginia Route 311 at Sweet Springs, most of the way across the state. Route 3 crosses a particularly large part of the state's landscape.
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]