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Murraysville is an unincorporated community in northern Jackson County, West Virginia, United States. It is located along the Ohio River across from Long Bottom, Ohio. It lies along Murraysville Road, north of the city of Ripley, the county seat of Jackson County. [1] Its elevation is 591 feet (180 m). [2]
Map of the United States with West Virginia highlighted. 2023 Rank City Type ... West Logan: Town 373 399 −6.52%: Logan: 171: Fairview: Town 370 373 −0.80% ...
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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.
Clip from John Senex map c. 1710 showing the people Captain Vielle passed by to arrive in Chaouenon's country as the French Jesuit called the Shawnee.. For nearly 15 years, missionaries and "coureurs de bois" confused ideas of a "beautiful River, large, wide, deep, and worthy of comparison . . . with our great river St. Lawrence" that in 1660 and 1662 they were able to describe a river below ...
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]
The Veterans Memorial Bridge connects Weirton to Steubenville, Ohio across the Ohio River and is the border crossing between the states of West Virginia and Ohio on U.S. Route 22. The city of Weirton is located at (40.4189, −80.5894). [16] It extends from the Ohio border on the west to the Pennsylvania border on the east at a point where the ...
Washington is a census-designated place (CDP) in Wood County, West Virginia, United States, situated along the Ohio River. It is part of the Parkersburg-Marietta-Vienna, WV-OH Metropolitan Statistical Area. The population was 1,175 at the 2010 census. [3] The community was named after George Washington. [5]