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Mercer County is a county in Southern West Virginia on the southeastern border of the U.S. state of West Virginia. At the 2020 census , the population was 59,664. [ 1 ] Its county seat is Princeton . [ 2 ]
English: This is a locator map showing Mercer County in West Virginia. For more information, see Commons:United States county locator maps. Date: 12 February 2006:
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 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]
Green Valley, West Virginia (the United States) Show map of the United States Coordinates: 37°18′40″N 81°08′21″W / 37.31111°N 81.13917°W / 37.31111; -81
Lashmeet is a census-designated place (CDP) in western Mercer County, West Virginia, United States. It lies along West Virginia Route 10 northwest of the city of Princeton, the county seat of Mercer County. [4] Although Lashmeet is unincorporated, it has a post office, with the ZIP code of 24733. [5] As of the 2010 census, its population was ...
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With its 25 ft (7.6 m) drop, it is the largest waterfall in Southern West Virginia. [2] It is found in the Brush Creek Nature Preserve, a 124-acre (50 ha) area by the confluence of Brush Creek and the Bluestone River. [3] [2] The falls lies along County Route 3 and the Bluestone River to the north of the town of Athens of Mercer County. [4]