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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 ]
English: This is a locator map showing Wood 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]
Parkersburg is a city in and the county seat of Wood County, West Virginia, United States. [5] Located at the confluence of the Ohio and Little Kanawha rivers, it is the state's fourth-most populous city and the center of the Parkersburg–Vienna metropolitan area.
Walker is an unincorporated community in Wood County, West Virginia, United States. Walker is located on County Route 7 in eastern Wood County, 4 miles (6.4 km) east of West Virginia Route 47, along Walker Creek and the North Bend Rail Trail. [2] [3] Walker has a post office with ZIP code 26180. [4]
For most of the state's history, there were three hundred and fifty magisterial districts in West Virginia, an average of six districts per county. Greenbrier, Harrison, Mason, Ohio, and Wood Counties each contained ten districts, the maximum number provided for by state law.
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.
Pleasant Hill is an unincorporated community located on County Route 38, 5.7 miles (9.2 km) south of Parkersburg in Wood County, West Virginia, United States. [2]