Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
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]
In this area, the Midland Trail follows the route of the historic James River and Kanawha Turnpike, an early road linking canals in the James River in Virginia with the navigable portion of the Kanawha River in West Virginia. [citation needed] The Midland Trail crosses some of the most rugged terrain of the Mountain State.
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
Interchange via connector road WV 612 west (Whipple Church Road) – Mossy: Eastern terminus of WV 612: Oak Hill: 66.5: 107.0: WV 16 south / WV 61 south – Greenstown, Hilltop: South end of WV 16/WV 61 overlap: Begin freeway: 66.8– 66.9: 107.5– 107.7 — WV 16 north / WV 61 north (Hank Williams Sr. Memorial Road) – Downtown
Interstate 64 (I-64) is an Interstate Highway in the US state of West Virginia. It travels east–west through the state for 189 miles (304 km) passing by the major towns and cities of Huntington, Charleston, Beckley, and Lewisburg.
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.
This is a list of rivers in the U.S. state of West Virginia. List of West Virginia rivers includes streams formally designated as rivers. There are also smaller streams (i.e., branches, creeks, drains, forks, licks, runs, etc.) in the state. Exclusive of major tributaries, there are about 46 named rivers in West Virginia.
The highway serves Charleston, the capital and largest city in West Virginia; it also serves the cities of Princeton, Beckley, and Parkersburg. I-77 follows the entire length of the West Virginia Turnpike, a toll road that runs between Princeton and Charleston, and it runs concurrently with I-64 between Beckley and Charleston.