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Wetzel County is a county in the U.S. state of West Virginia.As of the 2020 census, the population was 14,442. [1] Its county seat is New Martinsville. [2] The county, founded in 1846, is named for Lewis Wetzel, a famous frontiersman and Indian fighter. [3]
This is intended to be a complete list of the properties and districts on the National Register of Historic Places in Wetzel County, West Virginia, United States. The locations of National Register properties and districts for which the latitude and longitude coordinates are included below, may be seen in a Google map.
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]
After attaining independence from Virginia in 1863, West Virginia's counties were divided into civil townships, with the goal of placing authority in the hands of local governments. However, township government proved impractical across the heavily rural state, with citizens unable to meet on a regular basis, and inadequate tax revenue to meet ...
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West Virginia: County: Wetzel: Elevation. 889 ft (271 m) Time zone: UTC-5 (Eastern (EST)) • Summer : UTC-4 (EDT) GNIS ID: 1555048 [1] Marion is an unincorporated ...
Historic districts in Wetzel County, West Virginia (2 P) Pages in category "National Register of Historic Places in Wetzel County, West Virginia" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
Rockport, West Virginia (the United States) Show map of the United States Coordinates: 39°42′27″N 80°34′52″W / 39.70750°N 80.58111°W / 39.70750; -80